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MainActor
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HuHtCX 101 - most versatile ol commorMes
HuWCXPraft - makes MCX easily ad|uslable
ASP - MUf Amiga System Scan progra m
UJMrf rlnt - make put paper go luritiw
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DENISE £19
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SCSI EXTERNAL .£15
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Laser Guidance BE Final Writer
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Ben Vosl picks up the newest release of
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Neil Mohr
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Lommemal Amiga
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ECIS ai
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den Vost has a sneak preview of Foundation Imaging's
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Bq Garetti lafthouse
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T--wja will be back on sale in UK
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i scnoQJG to compete with PCs and
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Owamai The first A 1200 to be produced
■nee Commodore's demise 18 months
came of* the production line at the
V-*ga Teen no log ies factory in Bordeaux
■ September
Jota Smith, Amiga Technologies' UK
H*af Manager, confirmed the rumour
(•ported last month thai SDL and
- - i wfll be dtotrtbuDnQ Ihe two new
Anvga bundles. "SDL are long-time
partner* of Commodore, very professional
and very well respected," he told Amiga
outing. "We've obviously had the
Tfta imiw Amiga bundle
in shops for Christina*
demise of ZCL recently so we needed a
replacement and we Ihink Leisuresoft
offers a lot of expertise and dynamism."
Smith was confident that Amigas will
have a strong high street presence
before Chnstmas. announcing that
Tandy "has already agreed to stock
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on the verge of making
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HMV and Virgin will
probably be reached
through SOL and
Leisuresoft, though
Plans for US
Information for our American readers from Amiga
Technologies is still sparse, but Gilles Bourdin, the
company PR manager, was able lo make a
lew hey revelations about their US strategy
lo Amiga Computing.
Bourdin confirmed lhal there were no
plans to export the A1200 to America,
explaining; "We don't think there's enough
rlnm.inri. But Ihere is si ill definitely a good
martlet for the 4000T."
The 4000T will cost between S2600-2800
lor the 040 version, says Bourdin, which will
make it cheaper than its UK equivalent, At
the lime ol writing, it is in production and due
Gilles Bourdin
revealed that ihe American 4000Ts will come with ihe
same 'Magic Pack' software bundle reviewed in this
1 issue, except they will also include Scala
^k ' MM 300. This is good news since UK MD
I Anderson previously expressed doubts lhal
his bundle would ship to Amenca as well
There is no news yet of a distributor or
partner for Amiga Technologies in the US,
though the company is still looking to make
a deal with another party Information on Ihe
number ol 4uQOTs allocated to Amenca was
also unavailable.
Needless to say, we'll bring Our
American readers more news as soon as
to go on sale in America mid-October- Bourdin also it becomes available,
iId stand at (CIS
The ECTS, Europe's Computer
Trade Show, attracted a total of
10,359 visalors and 114 exhibitors,
but enthusiasts hoping to see a
stand sei up by Amiga
Technologies were disappointed.
Though the company's UK team
attended, MD Jonathan Anderson
claimed it was not the nght time la
take an official presence at the
show. He did say, however, that
(hey plan lo be at the Spring ECTS,
Fortunately, Leisuresoft had Ihe
r>ew A 1200 magic pack on display,
giving trade its first general vkjwiikj
of the bundle in the UK, Amigas.
though scarce at the show, were
displaying games on some olher
developers' stands as well.
On a different note, despite the
fact that the show was perceived
as a success, it seems not everyone
was pleased with the technological
developments on display.
A strange note was found in
circulation From the Society Against
Computers in which Ihe New York-
based group claimed that computer
technology is out of control.
"There are three months to
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Christmas," the _
leaflet staled. This v^
year, more than ever before, there
will be a massive push by giant
corporations to sett their products
lo the domestic market, to got
computers firmly established in our
homes, Thetr goal is to makn us all
dependent on these machines...
somebody must make a stand
now."
For a full guide to the industry's
world domination antics at the
ECTS, read our full report in this
issue on page 30.
there will be no direct relationship between
(hem and Amiga Technologies.
Silica, SDL's retail arm. hope to boost
sales of the pack with the announcement
of an additional Chaos' software pack that
will come with the standard bundle ai no
extra cost. The games included will be
Chaos Engine, Syndicate. Pinball
Fantasies and Nick Faldo Championship
Golf. It's envisaged that while none of
these titles are new, Ihey will make the
bundle more attractive to gamep layers in
particular.
As Christmas approaches, Silica, will be
releasing several A1200 peripherals,
including the Amitek Swift range of RAM
boards and a Microspeed trackball.
Amiga deueloper
disappears
The Amiga may be back, but yet another
supporter of the platform has disappeared
forever, Rasputin, iho game developers
that made Base Jumpers and Charlie J
Cool, stopped trading at the end of July
according lo the firm Tri-Logic wbo were
using them as publish-:
Rasputin is ihe latest Amiga company
to vanish after ZCL, the distribution and
retail giant, collapsed Ihis summer. Amor,
makers of the wordproeessor called
ProlOKt, also went bankrupt last month.
However, the staff of Rasputin have been
taken on by SoundScape Multimedia,
including Rasputin MD, Mark Stevenson.
Whether the team will publish Tri-Logic's
Limbo of ihe Lost game, previewed in this
magazine earlier Ibis year, is now unclear.
According tn Limbo's designer, Steve
Bovis, Rasputin's failure lo publish their
game puts it in breach of contract.
SoundScape Multimedia may take ihe
project up, but no new contracts have
been signed yet and Tri-logic have already
approached Ocean and Mindscape to
offer them the game. Any other parties
interested in publishing ihe tjfle are Invited
to call Steve Bovis on 01622 677158 or
Tim Croucher on 0973 512657,
Mark Stevenson was unable to clanly
what had happened to Rasputin at the time
ol going to press, though he confirmed he
Is working for SoundScape Multimedia,
Amiga Computing
DECEMBER 1995
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NEWS
flews briefs
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Amiga recruitment
As one Amiga company disappears,
another is born, Intersect Developments
dm ,i brand new development team for the
Amiga I hat le promising great things tor
the platform, including games that will
push Its AGA capacities to (he limit.
First up from the company comes
Atrophy, a new shooter due for release in
a month's time, but there are other games
already in the pipeline, As a consequence,
the company is now looking (o recruit
graphic artists, particularly those
Those interested in applying should call
Frank Tout on 01803 690174.
Going once, going twite...
The earliest known computer goes on sale
at Christies this October and is expected
to fetch a staggenng £50,000, Invented by
Cambridge maths professor, Charles
Babbage, It never got past development
stage because of a dispute over payment
with his engineer. His bad luck continued,
because although he started on anolher
version this also was never finished.
Animation firsts
The UK's first annual animation directory
is set to see I he light of day via Venue
Publishing.
Titled Animation UK, it will contain
details on the those who make it happen,
whether individuals or large production
houses, through all stages of production,
Targeted mainly at advertising agencies,
cumrnrssioning editors and funding bodies,
the directory will promote all aspects of
animation. II will be priced at £10. Venue
Publishing can be contacted on 0117 942
8491.
Arena for animators
For all those artistic Amiga users out there, another outlet tor the creative urge comes I
Ihe form of the Multimedia Bit. Movie competition scheduled for 4-8 April 1996 For the
last few years Brt.Movie has been giving animators and designers a ferum in which to
explore the new ideas, techniques and narrative forms rising from the digital imaoes
created using compufers.
The competition takes place in Riccione, Italy, each year, but ii attracts entrants from
countries all around the world. In previous years, Amiga users have been winners or
runners up, so if you've been working on an animation it's worth sending ofl,
There is also a posier image competition for which entrants are invited to send in
images, The deadline for this is 15 November 1995, and you should take into account
thai customs delays could hold up your submission by up to two weeks
Work should be sent (o BIT MOVIE '96, Via Bergamo, 2-47036 Riccione For more
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Birthday celebrations for Soft-Login
SoftLogik Publishing, belter known to Amiga owners
as (he company behind the powerful DTP program
PageStream, are currently celebrating their tenth
anniversary . Page Stream has somewhat led l he
way for DTP packages, so much so that a new
version is in development for Macintosh and
Windows. Amiga owners can look forward to a
new Amiga version which is planned for next year
Deron Kstfmaiar, SoftLogik president commented:
"PageStream has become the number one Amiga
and Alan DTP program by heing the butt program
available. The Macintosh and Windows markets
have entrenched market leaders, bul our extensive
experience as a pioneer in the DTP field will help
us succeed where recent Mac DTP newcomers
have failed."
And for our American cousins.,. - SoftLogik
have announced that they have cut the price of
their upgrade for PageStreama, Previously, the
price for upgrades was $135 which has now been
cul to £95. For those on a budget, however, they
will be able lo purchase a cut-down version for
S60. This will omrt Ihe Panlone colour libraries and
Ihe printed manual. However, PageStream 3
includes a comprehensive help system, so is easy
to use without a manual, SoftLogik have taken
these steps because they believe in increasing
PageStream3's user-base so that they can continue
development of this program.
They are taking this stilt further by cutting the
price of ihe North American version of the current
version of Wordworih. Their direct price for owners
or other SoftLogik programs has been lowered
from $120 to S99. and the new suggested retail
price reduced from $135 lo S110. Top seller
Organizer has also been cut to £&S,
SoftLogik are also offering loyal American readers
a special deal for Wordworth 3.1. K you get friends
to buy the package Ihey will only have 10 pay a
reduced price and you will get $20 back off your
next purchase from SoftLogik. A similar deal
applies with PageStream 3.
Editors choice
[omebach in Canada
Another Amiga product from America comes in the form of Phantom Development's
Digital Quill. According lo its makers, ii's a fully-featured lext editor designed to meet
every text processing need with 'grace and ease'. Quill will put editing lunctions at the
user's command with a user-definable Keystroke, Menu, or SpeedButton. The designers
say the program will be equally useful for working on book reports for the classroom as
well as lor writing C and Assembly language programs.
Several default macros are included which support many popular compiler environments
such as SAS/C. DICE, and Benchmark Modula 2. It will include a wide range ol features
including user-definable icons, menus, a style guide-compliant GUI, AREXX support,
Auto-lndenl for programmers and online help.
"Quill is nol only brand new in the sense of it being a new product," Ihe developers
said, "but it also brings a brand new attitude to text editors, and applications in general.
to Ihe Amiga. Quill is a user-centered design, that is to say it was designed from the
start with a high degree of usability in mmd, to provide a ground work that is comfort-
able and easy lo use, while at the same time being fasl and powerful
Digital Quill is priced a I S5S.95 in the US but it should be available with international
Amiga software dealers soon. Contacl Phantom Development LLC. P.O. Box 572
PlantSVille, CT 06479,
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With tales of woe for many Amiga-dedicated
companies, it's good to hear thai Wonder
Computers, one of North America's largest
Amiga-only companies, have just expanded.
Wonder Computers, Inc. nol only expanded
their corporate headquarters and added a
new multimedia dealership, but have also
formed Lazarus Engineering, a development
arm dedicated lo the creation and refinement
of Amiga products.
WCi's new headquarters keeps them
based in Ottawa, but creates 3,000 extra
square feet for the expanding administrative
office needs of the company. The former HQ
will continue to be used as a retail oullet, wrth
larger Hoor space, more storage, and a full-
time Amiga lab for classroom activities run by
WCi's Information Technologies division.
Coming oft the heels of a successful show
at AmiJAM '95 in Western Canada. Wonder
Computer have opened their fifth Amiga
dealership in Vancouver, British Columbia.
With the addition of the Vancouver store.
Wonder Computers occupies 13,000 square
feet of Amiga -only business nationwide. In
order to meet Ihe demands of the global
Amiga marketplace. Wonder Computers
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division to the team on the lorm ol Lazarus
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In addition lo original, in-house prefects.
Lazarus are hard at work revamping and
improving the product line WCi purchased
Irom New Horizons Software lasl spring.
According to Wonder, popular packages such
as Flow, QuickWnte, and DesignWCrks are
being brought up to the standards of the
latest Amiga operating system as well as
improved to compete in today's marketplace.
"Under the ministrations of Amiga
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hoards back in curly 1966,
While most of the other Amiga hard-
ware manufacturers in the Stales hava
shut down or moved Into the Intel world,
DKB's still on the cutting edge, releasing
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tor board The Wild Fire G6A, surprisingly
anough, isn't designed tor Ihe A4000 or
ASOOO, hul for the venerable Amiga
if 000, The A2000 has I ho greatest pene-
tralion into Ihe professional market on
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Toaster plalforms. And when you're
rendering frames m LighlWave, you
need all the horsepower you can gel,
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6B060 architecture - it's nol an 040
board redesigned to accept the more
advanced chip. The 060 can access
Benrni Rthin reports on a IIS manufacturer —
still supplying hardware /for the Hmiga —
memory 64-bits at a time (compared to
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access on the basic A2000), and Ihe
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of memory in mixed combinations of 4,
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pm modules.
The board boasts a 32-bit Fast SCSI-
2 controller. Its DMA access means over
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when reading and writing, The
AutoConfig board also sports an
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transfers up to lOQMbteecond
The board lists for SI 699, and DKB
will follow up soon with a model for the
A4000 and A4000T, In the meantime.
it's rather ironic that - for a short time -
iBHt Effects
Page Stream 2"% quirks are nearly ironed out now,
and vars<on 3,1 with all promised features
Implemented and the bugs ironed out may be out by
me time you read flhte. SoftLogik will then wrap up
IheMac port, which should be out this Winter, to be
followed by a Windows 9-5 release in the second half
ol 1396.
SoftLogik aren'l jumping ship, though. Along wilh
distributing Digita's. products in North America, the
company are also continuing to develop add-ons for
PageStream. The latest is TaxtFX s an add-on
module that finally does away wilh the need to load
SoflLogik's quirky and discontinued Art Expression if
you need <o create a fancy text splash in your
document TnxtFX is a PageStream3 extension and
fits seamlessly into ihe Page$tream3 interface A new
button will appear in the' Edit palette for text objects to
access the TextFX requester.
If has the capabilities ol Art Expression's text
effects features and then some. Et can warp text inside
any of the 50 pre-defined shapes, and you can warp
text in your own shapes via Arexx macros, It can even
warp multiple lines of text inside shapes. TexlFX can
even convert TextFX objects and any frameless text
object to graphics.
TextFX is compalible with Compugraphic,
PostScript and Soft-Logik DMF fonts- (II also works
wilh TrueType fonts »f you have Soft-Logik's optional
TrueType font engine.) It sells for 550, and Art
Expression owners can purchase il for only $40.
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DKB has also mentioned lhai they're
developing a multi-l/O Zorro If board.
The current plan is to include one paral-
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expansion module that will add another
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In brief
Softwood are answering the cries of
Amiga users who don't have Iho memory
or horsepower to run Final Writer 4. but
who do want an updated word processor.
Look lor Final Copy 4 this winter, with the
improved interface of Final Wrilor 4. but
tacking a few features.
Amiga owners looking for an all-in-one
scanner solution should conlacl MiQraph
Their MS2400 is a one-pass scanner that
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fax at (206) B3B-4677.
If you're looking for photo backgrounds tor
your desktop video or publishing work.
Canada's Legendary Design
Technologies have released ProPics, a
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IFF, BMP, Jpeg, and Toasler Frameslore
formats. The CD even includes, viewers
and image-processing programs for both
the Amiga and PC. Call Legendary
Design Technologies at (519) 763-6120.
fax Ihem at (519) 753-6052, or e-mail
legend@io.org.
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world in a matter of seconds,
Yes, providing you've got a computer
and a connecliun, the world's your oyster -
or so the magazines keep tolling us. We've
all read - and In my case written - the end-
less articles about Ihe online revolution
coming our way courtesy of the internet,
Ihe lucbnnlngrcal leap that supposedly rep-
resents Ihe zailgoist' for the 21 si century.
After all the talk, it's not surprising if your
first visit to the web ia disappointing. The
amount of information out there is so vast it
defies human comprehension and, unfortu-
nately, a large proportion of it is utterly
useless garbage.
The Internal's advocates often pomt to
the fact thai anyone can use it as a publish-
ing medium as one of the Web's great
Strengths, They are probably right, but any-
one who's ploughed through site after
pointless, boring site will roalise it is also
one of i(s great weaknesses There Is no-
one to censor the free expression of Opin-
ion on the Web, but there's also no-one to
weed out the sites where the content's so
weak it doesn't merit the expense ol a visit
on your phone bill,
IN THE SLOW LANE
Add lo that the fact that the software and
connections are still far from stable, and
thai access times just seem lo get slower
and slower as more people jump on (he
bandwagon, and thn Internal is clearly far
from being the Information Superhighway
we've been shouting about. Some say the
Web is in>stan(ly fascinating and addictive,
but newcomers with limited palience for the
foibles of computing may weli fall at the first
hurdle through frustration.
Magazines have churned out articles that
gtorify the Net lo a degree totally dispropor-
tionate to the benefits mosi people can
derive from it in its present form, How can h
possibly match up to the great expectations
we have built for it?
The paradox of the Interne! is thai it
gives 30 million people the means of
The 0C team
Web of lies
The internet connects you — i
to millions of people around -
the globe t so how come
surfing can be such a boring
and ionplq enperience ?
Qareth tofthnuse debunks
the myths surrounding the
World Wide Web
communicating with each other from all
around ihe world, yet surfing is aa lonely
and isolated an experience as computing
ever can be.
Wha) aboul all those Net romances, all
those friendships struck up between individ-
uals from different nations, you may be
asking? Well. I don't know aboul anyone
else, but my experience of the IRC
channels has boen so dull it's put me off for
life. Even the sex channel I visiled was
populated by computer nerds and illiterates
tapping away in a discussion about as
saucy as assembler code.
Unfortunately, trie people who volunlarily
trade in time they could spend socialising
with friends for the alternative of wittering
on in Internet discussion groups are usually
not the sort of people you want to befriend.
The problem with IRC groups is that they
allow the social inadequates. the bores and
the know-it-alls to hide behind the
anonymity of grey text pages. The net is
Ihe great leveller, a communication medi-
um I hat allows Kevin from Bedford to pass
himself off as Axeman the cool dude. But
people who need call signs and an expan-
sive vocabulary of smlfeys to make an
impression should probably be avoided.
More seriously, we journalists are caus-
ing a| least as much damage lo the credi-
bility of the new medium as anyone else.
Meaningless waffle and naval gazing Is
almost endemic among journalists writing
about the Internet,
The danger is that Jo Public will be
bored and disillusioned by the Web long
before it reaches a slate where it matches
most of the claims made for It. if, as
enthusiasts, we want this technology to
reach its potential, perhaps it's time we
stopped trumpet blowing, took a step back,
and started looking at things a bit more
objeciively. ,,_
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normal. Wo are now using Commodore's
installer uillity to try and make extracting
the archives as easy as possible for you.
To extract any single archive, simply
double-click its icon nnd follow the on-
screen irvalructions. If you want to quickly
extract the program to RAM, select the
NOVICE level on the welcome screen
and press proceed once on the Current
screen, and then again on the next The
program can now be found in your RAM
disk,
You also have [he option of using a
floppy disk. If you pick this option make
sure you have a Wank formatted disk at
Ihe ready, and If you only have one disk
gel ready for Jots of disk swapping and a
long wail.
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8 myriad of utilities for wu this month, including
two complete products - the emeltent database,
Final data, and a folk registered uersion of the
tremendous animation package IJIain Rttor
The double
Final Data
Author: Softwood
Workbench: 3.04
The first of our iwo product give-away
for this month is Final Data, a compre-
hensive and extremely nice looking
database manager. Hard drive users
can extract the archive straight onto
their hard drive because il is ready to
run, while floppy users must copy it
onto si floppy, boot with their
Workbench disk, and then run Final
Data.
if you want to get a quick idea of
what Final Data is like to use, load one
of the example databases The data-
base looks very much like a spreadsheet,
allowing you to view a lot of entries at the
same time.
You will quickly notice thai individual
columns can be resized on the Fly,
an entire row or column can be quickly
selected by simply clicking on its button,
and individual entries are easily edited,
again by just clicking on them.
To start a new database select new
from the project menu, causing a
requester to pop up. Whenever you wish
to make a new column, you use this
requesier, but first you must select what
type of data the column will contain, Final
Data can handle five different lypes, and
these firel three are fairly self explanatory
- being text, date. Lime?. The other two,
Amount and Calc, do need a little
explanation.
The Amount datatype tells Final Data
that what will be entered in this column
is numerical data, therefore allowing
calculations to be performed on it, You
can specify whether It should treat Ihe
amounts as currency and also how the
Final Data'± rwnl power la in the amount
at information you can view at ones
UaUm MM* you selvct the text Q*dg»t
before accepting snj pi four ch.ingts
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COVERDISKS
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Stm Due column sficws off
thm uh of Cnlc: functions
amount should be displayed. The total
value of all the entries in the column
can be displayed at the bottom of I he
window and also on printed reports.
Caic columns allow you to perform
calculations on any Amount columns
you havn previously defined. If you
have a number of Amount columns and
try to create a new Caic column, you
will bo presented with a new requester
with various gadgets and lisi views. The
group of radio buttons In the bottom
right-band corner let you add standard
math functions and numbers.
So to areata a new Caic column
called Deb), which involves subtracting
rhe amount Payment Irom the amount
Cost, you rriusl firsl click on Cost in, the
.mow. than click on the minus button
and then on Payment.
II at a later data you want to adjust a
column's attrjhuies, use the rederine
function in the columns menu. After you
have made a change^ make sure you
activate the Accept button by clicking in
the t(?«! gadget containing the column
name and pressing return. Otherwise
any changes you have made will be
ignored.
Final Data has fairly straightforward
search and sort options. The sort
requester lets you choose which
column the database should be sorted
Oy and whether this Is high to low
or vice versa, and the search and
replace function is the same as any text
editor.
Potentially the most powerful feature
Of Final Data is its comprehensive
ARexx port which ailows you to not only
write ARexx programs that can alter
Final Data's Interface and the way H
works, but will also lei you easily share
data with other ARexx programs - the
D'imary one being Final Writer, which
would allow you to do mail merges very
easily.
tolors
Author: Ian J Einman
Workbench; 3.0
Want to find out what I he colours on
any ol your screens are? Oh. well
anyway you can with Colors - yes it is
an American program, hence the
spelling. Featuring a font and screen-
sensitive window, Colors does look
very nice, and has the ability to jump
onto any screen and will automatical-
ly adjust to whatever resolution it is
displayed in.
There are plenty of options to allow
you to mess about with screen
colours. In botfri RGB, CMY and HSI.
You can also load Ihe palelte in from
any picture files, because Colors will
look for the CMAP chunk in an ILBM
file and toad it in. Before you iry to
use Colors, make sure you have the
systempl us. library installed, otherwise
it will crash.
B>mi} tent and FHsolution a&n*ltiv«,
Color* t3 m '90'* pttogram
Author: Ian J. Elnman
Workbench: 2.04
Autostart
If you should find your Amiga
Computing CoverDisk damaged
or faulty, please return it to:
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HBachup uS
Author: Denis Gnunelle
& Reia Elghazl
Workbench: 2.04
I would hope all you hard, drive owners
out there have a stack of disks tucked
away somewhere wilh s backup of Ihe
contents of your hard drive stored on
them, and if you have not why nol? You
just know at the most inconvenient time
your hard drive will crash and you will
lose some vital data, and then you're
going to be cursing yourself.
Well. ABackup has got to be one ol the
best Tiard dnve backup programs around,
and this latest version gives Ihe old
interface a complete overhaul for a much
nicer font sensitive one that works equally
well on either Workbench or on its own
custom screen.
Installation is nice and easy, using the
standard installer. Once done you can
take a quick look at all of ABackup's
features, which include tape and file back-
up support. This has the ability to specify
exactly whal compression it should use,,
including direct support for the XPK com-
pression libraries, and ABackup also
allows you 10 use external compression
programs such as Lha. if you wish.
From Workbench 2 a new drawer was added to the
Workbench disk, that being the WBSlartup drawer.
This made it a doddle to got programs up and running
along with Workbench, without having to mess about
editing your startup sequence. It is even possible to
specify which programs should be run first using the
STARTPRI tool type.
So why would you want to replace this great function?
Well, AuloSlart adds a number of useful new facilities
along with a number advanlages over Ihe normal
WBStartup, For starters, AutoStart can mn any of the
following; Workbench , DOS and ARexx programs
along with Amiga DOS Scripts. It is even possible to
specify a number of DOS commands on the same line.
You are best off using the supplied install script
because there is a new librafy to install, and before you
all start groaning, ii's only small and is needed for
Colors lo work as well. Once installed you should move
all your old WBStartup programs back to iheir original
locations. Then, run the preference program and
simply drag and drop all the programs you want to
run at startup into the preference window. It could not
be simpler.
You can Ihen prionlise the programs by using the +
and - buttons to move the programs up and down the
list, the highest programs being run firsl One very
useful addition Is I hat you can tag certain programs
thai should nol be run if the mouse button is being held
down at startup time, This allows you to boot up wilh a
minimal system which is very useful when you want
every byte of memory available.
Amiga Computing
DECEMBER 1995
COVERDISKS
Banger menu
Author: Andre Trettin
Workbench: 2.04
Here is another useful system enhancer
for y 01 if hard drive. Banger (no sniggering
at the back, if you don't mind) Menu lets
you choose to run various different scripts
or programs when you boot your machine.
When you reset your machine, hold down
the caps lock key and voila, Banger
Menu's lilllo window will appear w<(h your
various boot up choices, Just click on the
option you want.
This Is pretty helpful because if you
waul a number of different boot-up
sequences it is a good! way of getting an
easy-to-use interface. Currently. I have
three alternatives to the standard startup
sequence - two for booting I he CD and
another for running Willi a minimal System.
Banger Menu provides a perfect way of
choosing which alternative i want.
To install Banger Menu you need to add
a line early on in your startup sequence to
run it. You will also need to adjust the
preference file to suit your own needs. To
do I his ynu will need a good text editor.
IlKe CygnusEd- What h stroke of luck - we
gave il away lasl month.
[IeUJnIOuG
Author: Andreas Linnemann
Workbench: 2.04
One of the nice si features of AmigaDGS
is the ability to have many different
screens open al the same time. This
makes it so much easier when working
with different applications because each
one can reside on its very own screen,
with each screen being capable of having
its own resolution sand depth.
Reminder
Author: Richard Ambridge
Workbench: 2.04
Final Data
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Author: John Veldthuis
Workbench: 2.04
Virus Checker has just undergone a complete overhaul, so has jumped up a new
revision number. The major new additions are locale support for different languages.
and a completely new interface design.
Gone is the large single window of the old design because it has been replaced by ft
more elegant selection of buttons, each of which leads you off to the various different
sections of Ihe program. Virus Checker now uses the standard installer program, which
can be found on the first CoverDisk, There are a lot of files to copy across and you
should use It Personally, the best place to put the actual Vims Cltecker program is in the
WBStanup drawer. You should note that this version is not compatibie with the nlri rnn
figuration files, so if you have problems running it, check in your 'S' directory and delete
any virus configuration files.
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If you arc always forgetting to do things dunng the
day then you need this small commodity, if you
drag Reminder into your WBStartup drawer, each
limn you start youi computer it will check for any
messages you have entered into it, These mes-
sages can be viewed and edited irom the main win-
I ^ Ju&l same of Ifte nasty lasfks f haw ip cwrji out
Reminder provides you with a number of different message types, depending on how often you need to be
reminded to do something. Pefsistent is simply a daily reminder that will nol go away until you delete it. Along with
this ihere are weekly, monthly, yearly end a birthday reminder. This is the same as the yearly one, but with the
addition of an extra note, reminding you il is someone's birthday.
Helpfully, there are also relative reminders, so if you get pakJ on a particular day of the month, say the last
Monday of the monlh. this can be set. This is also possible for yearly relative dates. Il is also possible to specify a
particular time of day for the reminder requester lo pop up, like 5.15pm which is when I can hobble off home. There
is also the option of executing another program, say a sample ptayer.
All these adjustments are easily done through Reminder's interface using the proportional sliders to adjust Ihe
day and weeks. There are also keyboard shortcuts available lor all Ihe operations, bui you will have to read the
documents to get a run down on all ol them.
Reminder does provide a few other services, along with a good preference section where you can view all
forthcoming events for a specific time span.
The powerful mode promo Iron
window gives you accost to JNiy
uwan m«fi jfou could vti*h for
is opened is extremely comprehensive,
allowing you lo choose the amount of
overscan, screen depth, and whether an
extra haltbrite or HAM screen should be
used. This is as well as the nonmal screen
mode choice, There are plenty of other
options available and ynu should read Ihe
provided document tor full details.
Tiff Uieuj Patch
Author: Bert Wynants
If you bought last month's issue you will
have got your grubby little mitts on the
excellent utility, TiftView. Well apparently.
Ihe-re is a big bug in the IFF save routine.
which means only TiftView can reload any
images that it saves Out.
This will correct that bug. To use it
you will need to open a shell and change
directory id where you have placed the
patoh directory. Next, copy the TiftView
executable into the same directory, and
then type spatch TlffView - this will
alter Ihe original program to remove the
problem.
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COVER DISKS
As if one full program was not enough to keep
you occupied, this month we have the fully-
registered version ol Main Actor. This is such a
large program thai only users with over 1.5Mb of
hard drive space will be able to use it.
To install Ma in Act or boot up with your hard
rinvrs rind (iiinhlti-click on the InstatlKey icon.
This copies the special Main Actor key tile across
[TlainHttor
Author: Mark us Moenig
Workbench: 2,04.
Hur-ct drive required
You can *v«n piny nntmntian* In a wlnrfn w
to your L: directory and will give you access to all
of Main Actor's features, and remove all the
annoying 'pleas* register' requesters.
To install the main program, double-click on
the Main Actor I ha - to ose this you must have
the installer program, in your C: directory. If you
do not have this it can be found on the first
CoverDisk In the C drawer - drag it across to you
hard drive. Make sure you select expert install,
otherwise you will only be able to choose RAM
as the destination.
Once on your hard drive you will have to add
an assign line to your user startup, thai being
Assign MainAclor: . This allows Main Actor to
locate all the extra tiles it uses.
When you get Main Actor up and running you
will access either a sequence of pictures or a
complete animation. Luckily, Main Actor accepts
a wide range of animal ion formats along with the
normal IFF Anim format, such a AVI, FLI and
FLC.
The real power behind Main Actor is its ARexx
port. A number of example scripts are available
for you to play about with, along with a short
example animation.
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HSP
Author: Zeno Montresor
Workbench: 2.04
Magic User Interlace required
The Amlga"a operating system is a fairly
complex baasi, with lots of different
aspects of It running in Ihe background,
hidden .iw.iy from the user, Things like
libraries, devices, tasks, processes.
ARexx ports and interrupts can all be
opened, closed, created and disappear
without yuu knowing a thing about it.
For any one who is curious enough,
this Amiga scan program will let you prod
and pnkci and investigate all these things
and probably crash your machine, if you
are nol loo careful.
One of the most helpful things about
the program is that if a program should
crash, In riving its windows and screens
open, ASP will let you recover those
resources by allowing you to close the
redundant windows and screens. There
are two versions on the disk, one for
Workbench 2 and Ihe other for version 3.
miser Print
Author: Heinz-Guenter Bonltgcr
Work bench- 2.04
HP Desk J el printer required
This must be a favourite with ah Desk Jel
owners out there. For anyone thai does
not know what il does, Miser Print makes
your paper go a lot further by allowing
you to squeeze up to eight A4 pages
onto a single piece of paper. So using
my vast mathematical skills, with Miser
Print you can use an eighth of the paper
you would usually use.
How is this law ot physics-breaking
feal achieved. I hear you cry? WeH it is
quite simple, Using one of the tiny fonts
built inlo the Desk Jet. you can squeeze
around 170 characters across a single
piece of A4, and as most text is only 80
characters across you even have room
to spare.
If you then use the other side of the
paper you can squeeze up to eight pages
onto a single piece. This is perfect if you
need lo print out a large manual, because
il is easier to browse through, plus you
have the added bonus of saving paper,
You aiso get the ability to specify what
range ol pages should be printed, and
can view a preview ol how each page
will took,
multiCK Prefs
Author: Michael Barsoom
Workbench: 2.04
One of the problems with MultiCX is that
in trying lo keep the program as small as
possible, all its preferences are stored as
tool types in the program's icon. Seeing
that there are so many functions bultl
inlo MultiCX, ihis makes lor a daunting
number of loot types. This preference
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multiCH 2.D8
Author: Martin Berndt
Workbench: 2.04
Pa»e
program gives you a lovely GUI to
access and adjust all I hose tool types in
relative comfort.
Jusi before press we got an update of
MulliCX. This only corrected some bugs,
but as the preference program is looking
for version 2 ol MutiiCX, it does warn you
that it may not be compatible. Do nol
worry - alt MultiCX's functions are
accessible with this version ol MultiCX
Prefs.
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This is Ben Vest's favourite program in the
whole world. He loves It lo bits, he does.
MultiCX. if you did not know, is one of those
do-it -all-in -a- single -prog ram programs. The main
advantage MultiCX has over all the others is its
diminutive size, and the fact It has been written
in a highly compatible way.
Well, what is new for version 2 then? Martin
has added the very useful assign wedge so you
can do assigns from Workbench, and it gets rid
of another program from your WBStartup drawer
For ShapeShifter users there is a freeze
At la* I you do not haue t)o man messpnq
about with all Ihott tool types
ShapeShifter function. When the ShapeShlfter
screen Is pushed to the back it will freeze the
program, therefore stopping graphic card
screens being corrupted. There is also a function
to make Ihe righl button equal a Mac double-
click, but I have been told this is pretty useless.
Another two new additions to MultiCX are lock
pens for MagicWB users, so you will never lose
those lovely icon colours, and Newedit hook
which allows you to cut and paste to text
gadgets, among ether edit functions.
Of less use, but still quite nice, is opaque
window moving and resizing. If any of you have
seen the Acorn Archimedes in action, when you
move or resize a window the entire window is
always visible - you never have the rubber band
effect.
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Now that you've had a chance to try out Final Data 1
on our cover disk, why not get the full 100 page
official manual to find out more, or even upgrade to
the latest version - NEW, Final Data 3?
The Final Data manual costs only £12.95 whilst you
can get the latest Database from SoftWood for the
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Features of the Official Final Data 1 Manual
To make full use of your Final Data I coverdisk you may wish to order
the full Final Data 1 manual.
This informative ?00+ page manual will:
• Provide a set Of exercises in the tutorial chapter.
• Clearly explain all the menu and requester actions.
• Detail all the print options available.
• List and show examples of ARexx commands Final Data can use.
The easy-to-use manual includes clear screenshots, step-by-step guidance
and a comprehensive index
Another major benefit when you purchase the manual is that you will
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All this is available for only £12,95!
Uparade to NEW Final Data 3
You may prefer to purchase the complete new Final
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• Running Calculations ideal for producing a bank
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• Memo Data Type - enter as much text as you want
in a separate window.
• Database Queries. - define simple or complex search
criteria to produce a sub-list of required data.
■ Non-Contiguous Selections - you may now select
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This is useful for copying, saving, or printing only the rows or columns
you require,
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• Hidden Columns - for occasions when you don't wish to display or
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• Datatype Support - under Workbench 2.04 or above, Amiga graphic,
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• Conversion of Data ■ for example,
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Againsl all odds, however, the Amiga's good value and powerful
software has pushed it into some of the most surprising corporate
markets, It's key roles in numerous famous film and TV productions
alone has received a greet deal of well deserved coverage from
Amiga Computing in the past.
This is not the limrl of the Amiga's success in the commercial
world, howevui. \ix simplicity and natural prowess for creative work
make it the natural choice for all sorts nt companies requiring multi-
media, presentation, design and audio-visual tools. Over ihe next
few months, Amiga Computing will be focusing on some of this
remarkable machine's more Interesting achievements.
Reuamping histom
The Imperial War Uuspijm in Lambeth is
one of the most highly regarded of our
national institutions, a place where
artefacts and sources Irom some of the
most momentous events to shape
history are dynamically presented by
staie-of-the-art multimedia technology.
As one of London's most popular
tourist attractions, the Imperial War
Museum has had to keep abreast with
the times. Cabinets full of uniforms and
weaponry may have their place, but visi-
tors to major museums demand exhibits
tn feature simulations, videos, sound
and interactive displays to bring history
to life.
Given the high tech demands required
Itj Impress nvormare jaded visitors, even
those well versed in
the Amiga's multimedia tal-
ents might be surprised to
hear that this common
home computer is a hey
tool in developing and
running the interactive
exhibitions.
To start with, Seal a is
at the heart of the muse-
um's public information
service, with Infochannel
distributing information
about the museum's fl
services and
exhibits to m\\\
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screens conveniently dotted
around the museum.
Then there's the Scala
driven touch screen display
located at the heart of
the Civilian Dead exhibit.
A sense of how far reach-
' ing the destruction was on
an everyday basis can
be gained from entering
family names to discover
it anyone with your sur-
name - possibly a relative
- was killed in the
^ . German bombing
ftr campaign Scala
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Architecture, defined in (he Oxford English
Dictionary as the art or science of designing and
constructing buildings, actually holds a rare position
straddled between these two often uncomplimenta-
ry disciplines. Its praclitioners require an under-
standing of the laws of physics and a grasp for
detail, but Ihe best ol them will also possess the
creative vision of an artist
Modern architects have used computers for
some lime as tools in the process of design Many
were discontent, however, with the engineering-
based software they were forced lo work with on
PCs - until someone had the bright idea of using
Amigas,
Visualisation of a building project is one of ihe
most important elements in the design because il's
the stage when the architects and the property
developers finally gel a solid idea of what a building
will look like, and of what needs adjusting.
Previously, however, (he architect's clients would
commission about half a dozen drawings or water-
colours for this purpose, and for good quality work
they would expect to pay around E2Q00. Now,
Wales-based company Deiphus Visuals offer an
Amiga-based service that will revolutionise the
process. Maik Thomas, the man behind the proiecl,
Thfm if to*
WIIMn prerjvet.
a plan tot an
entrance
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construction.
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Thomas built
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of olant,
elevation* and
aita survey
drawing* drawn
at t-100 ic.ilc,
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enough detail
to aiMii lh*
complexity at
the computer
nwdtl
has a background in the profession having studied
at Cardiff University's Welsh School of architecture
for two years. Dissatisfaclion with traditional meth-
ods of visualisation put him at odds with the estab-
lished method of work, and ihis ultimately led him to
The) wire Iramo stage can give tho architect
a firat impression el the plnni, <ft*n ft wflfl
xurtacGli and textttrad accurately mnouah to
depict the finishes of things tike carpet* ,
ceitirm*. blank work jnd oven the specific
detail of the reception dexk .
abandon his course before completion. "I lull I was
restricted by the tools they were using," Thomas
explained lo Amiga Computing. "I was limited by
using AuloCad and traditional PC-based tools "
So where did the Amiga come in, then?
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lofthouse introduces a special focus series —
A wii tor ufirtg itn Amiga-ttazed
touchtcrmvn presentation
interprets information son) by Ihe louch
screen and Ihen Superbfise searches
through its database for enlries matching
the name it uses. It's a simple but effec-
tive use of technology lhal brings history
into a closer perspective
FILM FOOTAGE
Even more impressive is she impact
White Knight Technology's Broadcaster
Elite, (he non-linear editing tool, has had
on Ihe museum's use ol archive film
fool age. According to ihe head of (he
museum's audio-visual department, Alan
Morrow, It has opened up whole new
oossibiiities when it comes to their video
displays. According to Morrow, a short
tilm about life on the home front during
the second world war, for example,
was much more easily compiled and
edited using Broadcaster Elite than il
would have been using other systems.
And this sort of display is integral to
many of ihe axhibitions to be found in
the museum.
In addition, Broadcaster was used in
the mock wartime cinema, in which trail-
ers for films audiences would have been
waiching In the 1&4Q5 are edited togeth-
er to give visitors an authentic
experience.
The War Museum has. also used Bars
and Pipes to create music for presenta-
tions, plus Deluxe Paint and Morph Plus
for animation. So why did Ihe bosses
decide to invest so much in the Amiga?
As is often the case with these stories.
Sola is at the heart of the
pufilir. information seruiu, with
inFathmnel distributing information about the
museum's mm mi 9nhibits to screws dotted
around the mm
CAD - computer aided design - is for engineers to
do their plans on. It's all done in 2D and it doesn't
apply lo architecture in the slightest, but that's what
we've been forced to use on the PC."
But then Thomas gol Imagine tor his Amiga, and
realised ihe potential it gave him for a new
approach. "Imagine is a 3D modeller that's based
round space, and space is the sole tool of the
At fha tlnut stag* the artist specifies how the
?„ lifting is Jo bo 'photographed and what areas the
JAMutfon will wflJJr r.timnt* through, A few dfly*
mtrr the jirrppnjvdon* nvmrrn coinpl* Im and thtr ■mlrr*-
»#*«*nf ation- was put to vlrfea, *a*ln *tiou*jng thm
mrKfMtmet to have input into trie editing.
architect - controlling it, moving through it, And
there are other things in programs like Imagine thai
are so much more applicable, like the ability to add
textures and lighting. "
Thomas explained how it suits the architects
because they can think and work naturally in 3D,
bul il is equally helpful for the clients. The property
developers like it because we can work very flexibly
and can be flexible about price." He went on : "It's
basicaity a lol to do with impact. It allows the client
to walk through a building and get a good idea of it.
You see, when architects are looking at each
other's plans, even we can find it difficult to envis-
age really what ihe designer has in his mind. So
with ihe old way of doing things Ihe clients are often
left clueiess,"
The models are pul on VHS tape and animated
wilh accompanying muse and titles, and the clients
can take it away as something tangible to relate to.
it's so detailed lhal a client's first reaction might be
something like: "Oh, the chairs are the wrong
colour," yel il's so flexible that Thomas can make
small alterations within minules,
Once again, then, the Amiga is offering a compa-
ny high class presentation tools at a reasonable
price. Mark Thomas concludes: To be able lo havu
affordable computer graphics, which at the end of
the day is still regarded as high impact imagery, is a
key attraction. Anyone who has the opportunity to
get that jumps at the chance."
it turns out Alan Morrow was an Amiga
home enthusiast long before he pers-
uaded Ihe museum it was the best
solution to many of Its multimedia
requirements. Not that the Amiga's
acceptance at the museum has been
easy. As Morrow explains, getting people
used to PCs in the corporate environ-
ment to view ihe Amiga wilh anything
other than suspicion was anything
bul easy. Now, however, they cannot
help but be impressed with the
results. Asked what the future
hoids for techno logical inno-
vation in museums,
Morrow stresses the
importance of multimedia
in making exhibits ocoes-
i sible. Touchscreens
■ are becoming very
important because
they inform visitors
while allowing them
o proceed at their
own pace, so ihe re are now 25 in the
museum.
Technology can also give visitors more
information and more choices. The
Imperial War Museum has the second
largest 20th century English art collection
in the country, tor example, but space
limitations dictate that only a small
number of paintings can be exhibited
at any one lime. Nuw, however, peo-
ple can seek out pictures they par-
ticularly want lo see on computer.
Some might argue that the
multimedia museums are going
for popular gloss and sensation
at the expense of contenl.
Morrow argues lhal this is
completely untrue for the
Imperial War Museum, and
points out that the AV
department has always avoid-
ed flashy graphics and gim-
micks. And. he adds, the
museum's subject matler is
so strong and extensive il
can only benefit fromimagi-
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FEATURE
"M>
t happens twice a year. The
European Computer Trade
Show, a place where the
industries' movers and shakers exhibit
their latest products for the retailers,
Journalists and other trade parties all
interested in checking out I he future of
the computer entertainment industry.
Over the years it has become more an
exercise In the large companies flashing
their bigger bank balance over their
smaller competitors in the form of llashy
stands, glossy demonstrations, and the
hiring of attractive bimbos and him bos to
adorn the stands. Initially it was a show
designed for the European market, but it
has grown so much that it attracts visitors
from much further afield. And this years
show was bigger and noisier then ever,
with over 114 exhibitors and 10,359
visitors over the three day stint.
OFFENSIVE
The build-up seemed longer lhan usual
loo, with adverts in the trade peper,
CTW, spanning over tour or five weeks.
The adverts themselves have also
become more alarming, with companies
relying on shock tactics more than flag-
ging their producls. Take, for example,
the show edition of CTW, Firsl page
news was Ihe revelation that CTW were
calling upon the industry 10 take steps
against Virgin Interactive,, saying that
they sicken with their offensive advertise-
mm ilt. Then lurn the page and there it is.
an ad from Virgin showing black and
white movie foolage of a shot nl an eye-
ball being cut with a razor blade from
Bunuel's, Un Chien Andalou. It was yel
another marketing ploy.
Turn Ihe pages still lurther and you
come across a Gametek advertise men l
lor their lalest road racer with a picture
depicting a crash helmet with blood pour-
ing out. Then a picture of two young,
trashed-looking teenagers with blood
splattered from their noses to advertise
Ihe game Wipeoul, And finally, an SCI ad
with a blonde "crumpet" (sic) posed sug-
gestively over their PR man-
ager with the slogan "...we
Xdon'l have to blow our
Virtaal gtnssos
pfflyed a
signi/icjjnl part
5(H71» *m* it as
i (if way
forward
Play
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Stinf '* PinyitAtfon had a huge
presence with man* of thvlr
dlfajrJay
The
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Convrrwifmm of Amiga
hit Supnr Skidmark*
iirf ir> Itie offing on
other formats
own trumpet." Okay, so ihey did their job
in creating a pre -show silr but when it
came down to ft, was the actual event
any good? Well, Virgin continued their
movie theme with an impressive stand in
the form of a cinema, complete with ush-
erettes. Acclaim had an eyecatching
stand promoting their latest Batman
game with a lifesize bat mobile, and the
GT Interactive suite had a theme of
heaven wilh angels on the reception
desk, impressive though it is, a lot is
merely gloss and a visitor would do well
to take more than a cursory glance to
see if the actual product is any good.
On the Amiga side oT Ihings, it was
more positive than you mighl expect for
a platform l hat's jusl getting back on its
feet. No stand; from Amiga Technologies
though, which although unsurprising was
a little disappointing according to some.
Product-wise, on the other hand, things
did Hook brighter.
Longstanding supporters of the
Amiga, Team 17. displayed some of the
few actual Amiga machines of the show.
and demons) rated on them were Worms
and Alien Breed 3D, Around the
machines, people flocked to see the
games and it was good to see that
Amiga titles still generated as much
On* of In* more fli*tinr.tivm idi
tram CTW bjtloru ttim ihnw
Amiga Computing
DECEMBER 1995
FEATURE
Standing ouation
ECTS is a trade show, although looking around you wouldn't Ihi-nk so with the huge,
expensive stands and gimmicks that are more geared to a consumer event. Ah well, it's
their money and at least il provides entertainment for the visitor. Amiga Computing
looks at some of the highlights.
Virgin - Virgin, not renowned lor their
subtlety, opted For a cinema-style front to
their stand with games actually featured
as film presentations. The theme was
continued with usherettes.
Acclaim - Acclaim's stand featured a
lilesi/e bat mobile spotlighted lor
dramatic eifect. The other side of the
display had a more sporty feel with
appearances from The Hariem Globe
trotters and The London Monarchs.
GT Interactive - a rather foreboding
entrance led to GT's original suite which
was themed around heaven.
Receptionists were dressed as angels
and the ethereal music provided a nice
change to the hustle and noise outside
Warner Interactive - taking up a large
space, we found Warner interactive.
Crammed with their latest titles, their
was little room lor anything more,
Unfortunately, there were no Amigas in
sight despite their release schedule
showing both Flight of the Amazon
Queen and The Chaos Engine 2.
Microvalue Flair - a graffiti-style stand
was used to pnomoie their forthcoming
game. Shockwaves Express. Nul points.
The entertainment computer industry is foreuer-
( hanging. One uiau to keep op uiitn it is to uisit the —
bi-annual industry eueni the European iompoter —
Trade Shorn. Tina tiarkett reports on the latest —
interest as some of the new generation
stuff.
Amiga Computing took the opportunity
to talk to Andy Davidson, programmer of
Worms, to find out his views on the show
and the Amiga He explained lhat
Worms was produced on the Amiga and
.'. 'houl this machine, the market would
oe a lot worse off; "The Amiga has been
©sponsible for Ihe majority of original
games. It's a cheap, easy-to-use com-
i and without it there will be no new
talent entering the market." As for the
. generation of machines he slated:
There are games coming out for them
tiat are good but a lot are very unorigi-
nal tilles simply dressed up. It doesn't
■natter how many silicon graphics you
chuck at a product, II 's gameplay that
matters."
Reassuring stuff, especially when you
take a look at some of the visually
stunning products nn display. Beneath
hi-tech appearance it's gameplay
mal counts, and It was particularly inter-
esting lo see that among all these
Islanding supporters of the
flmga, learn 17, displayed seme of
the fen actual ftmiga machines if
ttestau
games for the PCs and consoles are
titles that were on the Amiga first. At the
risk of sounding like a gushing
Amigaphile. M was pretty good to see
things like Super Skidmarks and
Sensible Soccer all being converted
onto the new platforms, and it goes to
show that Amiga owners are trusted for
their opinions on games.
Binary Emotion's Ian Jolly was at the
show and he commented: 'If Amiga
owners don't like a game then it's no
good- They test I he market."
So Sensible Soccer now has ren-
dered scenes and commentary, So
what? It's the same game. It was also
ironic lo see that the latest game tor the
PlayStation is Lemmings. It's been
One* again. Ocean sponsored f rw
ECTS bar. Their sfovll with I>.-.m
17 rt-Kuffcrf in a faittt aland
Owe* (o* three days a record attendance
of 10.35$ was clocked up
ECTS played hoat to r 14 exhibitors with some, -
ot the bin fie St niflin in 1h« computer industry
Amiga Computing
DECEMBER 1995
EH
-- III
FEATUHE
altered to make it 3D but the gamaplay is
pretly much the same.
Other uarrm. 1 ; that am being released on
Ihe Amiga c:nijild have bepn shown, but
disappointingly thrsir PC counterparts
were on display instead. These included
Ascon's racing management gamu, Pnin
Position, which already looks rather
impressive on the PC. We are assured,
however, thai the Amiga version should
look pretty much the same, although I he
rendered race scenes have yel to he
firmlijjod Demerit had the eagerly-awaited
Championship Manager 2 and Total
Football on display, the Amiga versions of
which will be seen in the next few months.
Total Football will be reaching many for-
mats, and Acclaim's show promotion for
Choir SNES/Mega Drive release was
backed up with a guest appearance from
Los Ferdinand.
CLONES
UbisoH's eurprise announcement to
bring Street Racer to the Amiga, was sup-
posed to be backed up with a demo,
However, the Amiga version wasn'l rciady
in time but a chut with the programmer
trom developers. Vivid Imago, confirmed
that the version is welt on its way, and he
iniends to keep it on two disks with very
I i mi led disk swapping - something they
achieved previously with First Samurai. At
the moment there will definitely be a two-
player split screen option, but he is also
working on how to keep the four- player
split screen so the Mega Drive version is
compromised as tit Ho as possible
If there's a record for how many Amiga
products you can have on one stand il
would go to GuiJdhall Leisure Services,
Offering a Suliware Production and Sales
service to companies such as Black Magic,
Acid Soltware and Audiogenic, there was a
wealth of Amiga titles on display. Two ol
these were ihe latest Doom clones, Fears
by Manyk and Gloom by Black Magic,
When asked if ihny found M difficult to
promote iwo very similar products Michael
Crook offered: "Mot at all, they are both
Forward thinking
3"
Ihe Fbnga
\m been
responsible far the majDrrbii af
original giNns. It's icteap,
easq-to-JSB lamputEr ard
Luithaut it there Luil! be nn
new talent entering ttw
market
The Durlacher report was released to coincide with the show and
revealed some interesting findings on the Computer and Video
Games Industry. It found that both the European market and UK
alike have both suffered a drop in sales but predict growth for
1996 The UK games market has fallen from E797 million In 1993
to £509 million in 1995. However, the report forecasts a rise of IB
per cent which means a retails sales level of £601 million.
What was particularly surprising was how well CD32 sates
have held considering Commodore's demise. The CD32 still
holds 4,17 per cent of the UK CO games market above the CDI
and the Mega CD. There was no real surprise to learn that IBM
PCs corner 66 per cent ol the UK home computer, but there is
still a healthy 32.5 per cent share for the Amiga.
On the company side Of things, it was found that Virgin had
the biggest market share, followed by US Gold and then
MlcroProse,
Amiga Computing
DECEMBER 1995
Ovvatoper et
uramii, Andg
Dnintttan,
*»Ji'"'n* havr
tin Amiga It
responsible lor
.1 ial ni fJiit
originality in
Ihe tjnme a
market
very different and are trom two so pa ml r?
companies, We promote them both
equally." Both titles will be up against com-
petition from Team 17's Alien Breed 3D
and Black Legend's Citadel, and no doubt
countless others that are all trying lo create
ihe PC's most popular game. Doom on the
Amiga.
On the more serious side, educational
gurus Ten out of Ten Software pledged
continued support to the Amiga wilh a
packed release schedule for the next quar-
ter. Titles m development include Spelling
and Punctuation, Italian, Spanish and Latin.
Leisu resort took a stand to promote their
latest range of peripherals and accessories
and are currently in the process of
negotiating a contract for distribution rights
to the new A1200 bundle and Amiga
Technologies Virtual glasses. Both prod-
ucts were on dispfay. Show announce-
ments included the release of their new
Amiga mouse and Tecnoplus joysticks,
Leisuresott were not the only sland to
display virtual glasses, The Virtual i-glass-
es were among other competitors ail claim-
ing to immerse the user in a mind-blowing
virtual reality experience. The other head-
sets on show included those from Forte
Technologies who announced lhat they
were seeking an injunoiion against
VictorMaxx Technologies, developers of
the Cybe-rMajoc headset, claiming they
have infringed patent. With all the hype
surrounding these virtual reaJity headsets,
it's indicative ol the future that people are
seeing this technology as the way forward
for gaming.
As far as the other platforms fared.
!*^e
ff*ver»d developer* Bullfrog in working
art * numbrr of new PC games sue h as
Theme rtotptiat. Who tnowf wh*th*r w#
conta 1*0 fr on (ha Amigm
Microsoft were present to pro-mote them-
selves as games publishers. Emphasis
was on their hrsi action game, Fury, sales]
ol which Ifiey hope will reach 100,000 in
the UK before Christmas. Sony
announced their presence in as noisy a
way as last Spring's show, and although
they look up less space than before, they
promoted the launch of Iheir PlayStation
with a great many titles on display for
visitors to try out.
THE RIGHT TIME
ECTS is an event awash with the latest
rumours. One such rumour was that
Digital image Design had been
approached by Amiga Technologies to
develop a 3D chip lor the CD32, but
Amiga Technologies State there IS DO
foundation behind this but plans may be
made for Ihe machine after Christmas,
with changes in specifications and
cosmetic design.
We approached Amiga Technologies to
get their view on the show, When asked
why they didn't exhibit, AT answered thai
they did not feel it was the right time, but
they will exhibit ;rt Spring's ECTS.
Jonathan Anderson commented: "We
attended the show and had meetings wilh
a large number of software publishers to
see if they would port over some of their
PC CD-ROM titles to the Amiga. The initial
reaction was better than we thought it
would be and we will be in meetings over
the next two or three weeks lo discuss
this. Everyone has to be convinced that
we mean business and they need to see
the product on the shelves." £&
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HjrpeFfiauta are ecoloaicatlr sound, squeak y
i->nn warrior* for f ti* goad ot mother earth
^O
oundation Imaging, familiar to
readers of any Amiga magazine
as [hn mnst famous of all the
users of the Amiga In a professional situa-
tion, have Mil pay dirt once more.
Scheduled for launch in the autumn of
ia^6>, Hypnrnfiuta will bu a half-houl .
weekly television show for Saturday morn-
ing telly m the States. Th& show hasn't
been bought up for this side of the pond
yet, bui I think it's likely, given the success
of Babylon 5 on both sides of the Atlantic,
ihai ii will appear on our screens fairly
soon thereafter.
The basic storyline will be familiar to
kids the world over. Each story Is based
around the same team of three human
teenagers and their alien friend (the usual
guy in a suit), helping to keep the galaxy
safe for the good guys. The bad guys in
(his slory are a bunch of robotic enemies
controlled by a group of three really nasty
aliens who are in telepathic control 0< Ihe
robots, and who are also linked lotjether
telepathically. Each week, our gang will
battle their gang tn time-honoured fashion,
presumably wrth the usual outcome.
The show will differ from Babylon 5 in
one important respect. Whereas Babylon
5 is mainly set In space,
which is
compute
being easy.i
like phys
T|
'Crush thorn!', the chief (wncJimnn
for the Tr ,-ud upcul.-ili'i
Looking xomnvthat HHg extras from War at the Worlds,
thm Triads evil robot minions advance menacingly
Ben Hast takes a sneak preview of
a new Foundation Imaging XBshuus
and organic structures - Hypernauts will
have most of the aciion based on Ihe
ground. This poses a very big problem for
CG people because unless you are willing
to spend
*
many tens of thousands of pounds on the
appropriate software and hardware, gen-
erating graphics lhat look like real trees,
grass, water, flic is difficult, and when it
comes to interaction with those elements,
almost impossible'.
Therefore, a la Thunderbirds, minia-
tures will be used for certain etemems of
Ihe show Thorn will do .i model-baaed Ail
Terrain Vehicle and most of the land-
scapes will also be modelled for real. The
hostile environment suits will.
^^j^j unfortunately, prove toe
/ 1 expensive and unwieldy to
A build lor real, so they will
^ be scaled down for Ihe
A final production.
Even so, they
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CEMBE
FEATURE
llh
rs» ••»«* wiYJ h» airing In ihe autumn ol 1996
in jlmufitj. UK vtalur !■ as jr»t uncartiifn
l I still be about 12 feet high.
Obviously, it there was no advance on
Thunderbirds, Hypemauts wouldn't be
very exciting, but Foundation Imaging
intend to combine CG shots with the
miniature landscapes (hey build to
enhance the look and feel of the seis. Tnis
should hplp to get around some of the nor-
mal problems of apparent scale that made
Thunderbirds look so very... very... well,
very modelled.
REALISM
However, this has meant a lot more
work for Ihe CG people, ensuring that
lighting angles and intensities are correct
and Ihat Ihe computer-based models don t
simply look overlaid onto the miniature
landscapes. Ai the bottom of the opposite
page you will see a test shot of one of the
aircraft in Ihe show, called a Bison, wbich
nas been composited over rootage of the
Mojave desert In North America This pic-
ture has been taken from a high resolution
printout »F the; original shot, but even with
A perfect landing, but !•■• than partect Imrrmln
indicjatpK the need to match CO modal* wftfi firm action
these limitations the shot looks impres-
sive. Also impressive is the launch
sequence for the dnjp ship from the moth-
ors-hip our gang live on, The idea, is based
on a rail-launcher'magnetic accelerator
approach and really needs to be seen for
full effeel, The drop ship srts in a tunnel
and accelerates out of the belly of the
rmrthership at great speed.
The series is going to consist of 13 halt-
hour episodes each with around 70 CG
effects shots, which is nearly twice as
many as in a standard episode of
Babylon 5. and in
half-an-hour as opposed
to three quarters of
an hour This
Thw hyptrnrv'f drop ship plummets
through the launch accelerator tynnut
also means there are more in one single
Show than in the first 13 of the 22
episodes Of the firs! season of Babylon 5
put togeiher. This means that togeiher
with the punishing CG schedule thai J
Michael Straczynsxi has set for the third
season of Babylon 5, Ron Thornton and
his team will really have l heir work cut
oul for them.
Unfortunately, owing to the prohibitive cost
and relative slowness of ihe hardware,
Foundation Imaging no longer use the Amiga
in any great way tor rendering or modelling.
Instead, as befitting a company with as much
work to do as Foundation Imaging, they use a
mixture of three DEC Alphas, nine Pentiums
and a couple of MIPS machines running
LightWave for the rendering of the CGI
The learn nahind H att,
lend by Ron Thornton
RIP (taiga?
effects in Babylon 5 and Hypemauts. These
machines sit in the "Engine Room', a
specially-designed part of Foundation
Imaging's offices that is air filtered and condi-
tioned to make the besi possible enwirortmeni
for running the machines In, The only thing
the Ami gas now do is look after certain
aspects of the network - a bil of a
turnaround.
L t DraWBERl995
REVIEW
flminet 7
The number ol these Ihings
now-a-days is jumping higher
than a kangaroo on steroids,
but since over 5O0Mb of new Amiga
public domain software has been
uploaded lo the Aminel, they haye
§01 a good excuse and at least it
proves lhal Amiga users are still
highly active and buoyant - the total
number of uploaded programs
recently topped 20,000.
As is usual with Amine! CDs. they
try to concentrate on one specific
area, and this CD's area is clipan I
have been using Aminet CDs for a
good while but usually I use the
excellent find tool and AmigaGuide
combination. However, seeing I have
lo do a review, I thought I would
have a little nose around all those
extra drawers.
It turned oul lo be well worth my
while, because In the list drawer
there are a number of AmigaGuides.
One allows you to view the most
downloaded, and therefore most
popular programs for various
categories.
The demo guide again organises
demos in terms of both their quality
and what machines they will run on.
So if you own an A4000 you can
watch demos safe in (he knowledge
=JL
-M^ena
CD as this, is the seventh one but all
the material is new or updated.
II you cannot find anything on this
CD that is of use or i merest to you.
you probably don't own a computer
- but then you could use it as a
Frisbee!
Thumbnail ulmwing of Jmlml'i Pictures
that they will nol crash your machine.
The one tiling that grabbed my
attention was the PicZoo button. This
is a separate program that lets you
view all the pictures in a certain cate-
gory as colour thumbnails, and if you
then want to see the full image just
elicit on the appropriate thumbnail.
The only downer is thai you must
make sure you have the NTSG moni-
tor driver running because it insists
on it. It is hard to s-um up this Aminel
Product: Aminet 7
Supplier: Emerald Creative
Technology
Price: £14,95
Phone: 0131 715 8866
Ease of use
Implementation
Value for money
Overall
9
9
9
9
laser guidance
Done by the same people
who did the imaginatively
and strangely similarly tilled
World of Video (see next page), you
can enter and lose yourself in the
staggering World of Amiga. This is
similar to the World of Video in that
it is a general CD containing a wide
range of programs, games and data
files for you to play about wilh.
All the data files are splii into their
appropriate drawers and I was a
little worried that there was going to
be a lot of duplication wilh the
World of Video CD, However, as it
happens, only a lew of the better
animations are on both CDs.
Along with a good selection of
animal ions there is a token picture
section and a couple ol good
programming guides for assembler
and ARexx, The assembler guide
shows you how to code which is a
very good starling point if you want
to learn how to write system friendly
demos and games,
Ttinrr; is a wide selection of music
modules and samples, with mosl of
the samples being of a good quality.
World of Amiga
World ■of
Amiga
It's IB round up time again. This mnnth -i I
fie/7 fflohr takes a gander at an emellent A
clip art collection, the latest flminet IB A
and a couple of titles from US Breams A
One problem I found with the music
section is that the tool types set-up
for listening to the modules and
samples are wrong. If you double-
click on any of the icons you will
Simply get the cannot run blardy blar
program thrown in your face.
This might not be such a problem
because there is a huge col I eel ion
of public domain programs on !he
disc, covering every possible
subject range, So if you want lo play
any of the modules you can go off
and locate either a demo of
Amiga Computing
DECEMBER 1995
OctaMED 5 or run EaglePlayer.
Overall this CD is okay,
Everything can be run from the
Workbench, except lor ihe problems
with the module and sample's tool
types, II you have just bought a
CD drive then this would he an
interesting CD to get. There is
plenty of stuff to look at. and plenty
of programs to play about wilh, and
all at a very reasonable price.
The bottom line
Product: World of Amiga
Supplier: US Dreams
Price: £14,99
Phone: 0f4B3 756813
Ease of use
'
Big robot*, part of tfio Amiga world?
Implementation
Value for money
Overall
6
7
B
7
REVIEW
Phase One
UJarld of Uidea
□ here is a readme Hie or> Ihis CD
that is expressing ihe authors'
opinion about !he quality of a
number of current CD collections and the
people that are producing them. The drive
of the readme is that the quality is
absolutely minimum, basically meaning
these CDs are shovel-ware.
You may have actually gone oul and
bought some of these CDs - if you have
you will know what I am talking about. One
problem inherenl wilh CD col I options is
I hat there is so much space on them,
proper organisation of the material is
essential, otherwise it becomes impossible
for the usef to be able to find anything of
any relevance.
In the worse cases you get a directory
containing a few hundred files - that is if
you're lucky - with irrelevantly named dies
such as x1fi98.dms. If you want to find
anything you have to first trundle off and
locate an index, then search for any rele-
vant material, then open a shell, and tfien
manually un-drms the file 10 a floppy. The
total process lakes anything up to 10
minutes For a single disk.
Everything I have just said, I am delight-
ed to say, is completely and utterly
irrelevant to the Phase One CD. Indeed, if
anything, the Phase One CD is a joy Id
use, AlH (he Hies are intelligently and intu-
itively categorised into relevant drawers
with relevant file names.
For instance, you want to find some
dipart of a frog. Simple, jus! go into the cli-
part/iff/animals/reptiles/frogs and you can
either view a collection of thumb nail pre-
views or the individual images. The aclgal
file names represent what Ihe picture is.
though I'm not quite so sure what the
horny loud piccy is all about.
I suppose I should actually tell you what
is on this CD, The Phase One CD is a
collection of quality clipart. fonts and pic-
tures for all you DTP users out there. The
collection has been especially organised
for Amiga users, so all the drawers and
preview files can be accessed by icons.
The actual clipart on the CD comes in a
number of flavours - black and white IFF,
scalable encapsulated postscript along
with IFF previews, and a collection of
colour IFF images. The images are nol
available in every format, but most pack-
ages will accept all formats, and if you
have trouble with EPS clipart there are IFF
versions provided. AH the clipart is of a
good qualily and they are at a high resolu-
tion, including the EPS IFF alternatives.
Trying to get any document to look
original is going to require access to new
fonts, and this CD has got its fair share of
them. Covering Compugraphic. Type One,
ProDraw and Coloured IFF clip fonts,
most of the fonts are available in all the
scalable formats. One point to note is that
every font comes with an IFF preview so
you can quickry get an idea of what each
font looks like without having to mess
about loading it into any package.
Of less use to DTP users, but of interest
to video people, are the images on ihe
CD. There is well over 7QMb worth of high
resolution full overscan images, all perfect
as video backdrops, and again, each
properly categonsed.
Other things to find on this CD are
updates for PageStream 2.21 and version
3 a to h, to OpalVision and Typesmith.
There are even Full demos for both
Typesmith and Pagestream. If you
happen to be using a CDTV to access the
CD. Pamet is included ready to run.
This is an excellent CD.. Not only is il full
to the pnm of quality fonts and clipart but it
is supeibry organised, It may not have the
clever search options of the Aminei disks,
hut if you are actually going to be using
this thing regularly, it is going to be simpler
jusi to follow the drawer organisation. Al
the end of the day Ihis CO is virtually
impossible to find fault with - if you need
clipart. (onis or images you need this CD.
The bottom line
ColiHir indoxi ira p vmrv handy addition
Product; Phase One
Supplier:
EM. Corrtput&rgraphic
Price: £24. 99 + Ft p+p
Phone: 01255 431383
Ease of use
Implementation
ir.i i.
Value for money
Overall .
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mo it's not a picture
collection of video
recorders, and it
does not tell you how to
care for and love your
video. It is in fact a CD
dedicated to all things ani-
mated and screen related.
Thus is one of those
general Amiga collections,
covering a wide selection
of areas in the video
world. One large chunk of
the CD is taken up with
Amiga animal ions, all of
which are excellent. Probably the highlight tor me was Ihe fact it
contains the complete Enc Schwartz collection, along with a number
of Craig Collin's excellent animations, such as Last Stand on Hoth
and The Ad.
There are also three Rise of the Robots animations which are AGA
only, along with a number of Mpegs. Unfortunately, the supplied
Mpeg interface flatly refused to play any of ihe Mpegs, moaning you
had to resort to manually running them from a shell. If you are
unfamiliar with the Amiga's shell,
and the Mpeg player, this is easi-
er said than done.
There are icons for some of the
larger animations that allow you to
play them spooled off the CD,
Iherefore requiring less memory.
However, the problem with this
was that the program simply
crashed on our A4000. Therefore,
if you are low on memory you
would have to use Biganim or
Viewek yourself.
As usual there are pictures cov-
ering various subjects, none of
which are at all lewd - just the
normal animals, fantasy, plenty
of cartoons, and a large raytraoed section, In their own section are a
collection of good quality high resolution 24-bit PAL backdrops for use
in any presentation or video work you want. These include mixture of
both IFF and Jpeg, along with HAMS ihumbnail previews.
Probably of more use to rayiracing fanatics is a collection of high
resolution textures. There is a thumbnail Ham8 preview provided so
you can get a quick idea of what they look like, and : again there is a
mixture of IFFs and Jpegs - ihe IFFs are eilher al 24 or 8-bit depths.
The quality of both the backdrops and textures are excellent, the Jpeg
backdrops are very good quality, but unfortunately, the same cannot
be said for the Jpeg'ed textures.
On top of all this there is around 135Mb worth of general and
graphic-speci'ic programs for you to mess around with, ranging from
commercial and shareware demos, to lully usable public domain
programs and utilities.
If you have only ever
seem a couple of Eric
Schwartz animations, this
CD is worih buying just to
get his complete collection.
not to meniion the Craig
Collins animations. Overall
its not a bad collection of
video-related sluff, not con-
centrating on any one area
but giving a good general
spread of material, if you
only have a passing inter-
est in Amiga animation this
CD is worth considering.
A good collation of ait things vuTbd
IhE bottom line
Product: Worid of Video
Supplier: US Dreams
Price: £i 4,99
Phone: 01483 756813
Ease of use
Implementation
Value for money
Overall
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fO
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would have been considered top
Df tire range row looks a bit Stinky
:oo much Renn & Slimpy). To be fair to the
aid Motorola 68020, lens years ago it could
ne found in top-of -the- range UNIX work
stations produced by (tie likes of Sun and
HP. and would have cost as much as the
Penlium.
But processor speed continues on its
exponential growth, and if you stand
around, no-one else is going to wail lor you
to catch up. Anyone who has attempted
any sort of ray tracing will know you can
never have a fast enough processor, and
aven programs such as Wordworth and
Final Writer can grind lo a halt if documents
have a high graphics contents.
So what do you do if your A1200 isn'l
making (he power graded Well, Power
Computing might just have the solulion for
/ou in the form of the Falcon,
When we first heard of the Falcon
040/060 board our first worry was how on
earth they were going to keep the thing
:ool enough, because the 040 is a very hoi
chip. Wo hart visions ot having to prop inn
1200 up on stills so you could fit a fan
underneath it to keep everything cool: but
as it turns out the actual solution is very
neat,
Unlike other A 1200 trapdoor accelera-
tors, fitting the Falcon will invalidate your
warranty, as fitting the fan requires you to
remove the top casing off your Amiga. This
is actually the most time-consuming part ol
'.he operation, because removing all those
screws does take some time. Once you
have got the casing off and removed the
Keyboard, you can fit the fan.
HOLE-LESS
In the actual documentation there
appears lo be another screw hole in the
Amiga's bottom casing, but on all our
A1200S no such second screw hole exists.
The only available one is one of the bolt
holes used io hold the disk drive in place.
As the only alternative is to siart drilling
holes through the casing, shield and moth-
erboard, you have lo remove Ins disk
drive's mouni. This does not cause too
much of a problem as the disk drive is still
field firmly in place by a couple of other
oolts.
Once the fan has been screwed into
place there is |ust the matter of forcing the
board into the expansion slot. Now I've
;een some pretty tight filling boards in my
particularly s-Orne of the bigger 030
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boards, but the Falcon uses every spare
millimetre of trapdoor space.
When you come to fit it. angle the edge
connector into place, make sure every-
thing is lined up and then apply a "reason-
able' force. If you make sure everything is
square the board should slot nicely into
place, but it is such a tight squeeze you
will need to push the other end down into
place - and if you want to replace the
trapdoor cover it is necessary to cut a
large square out of it, so the memory
SIMM can fit Personally, I did not bother
to replace the door
One interesting point is that the Falcon
will not even work unless you have 4Mb ol
memory Therefore, you need at least a
2Mb SIMM to get it to work, i think this is
actually a good point because there is
very little speed increase gained from
running accelerators without Fast RAM.
In use, everything worked wonderfully.
Windows zipped about, Jpegs displayed
in no time, and all the recent games I tried
such as Super Skid Marks, Pinbail illu-
sions, UFO and PGA European Tour
worked with no problem at all. Even the
Inn is fairly quiet.
TTiis is a great bit of kit. Ihe only down
If you examine the lovely artistic pholograph of the Falcon
board you may notice a very suspicious looking square block
skulking at the end. This is, in fact, a SCSI I I'll I interface - yes
that is correct, a SCSI III connector. Don 1 ! know what it is, but it
sounds damn impressive.
The only down side to this is thai the connector you have lo
get is a half pitch 50-pin connector which is a little unusual, but
Power can supply all the necessary leads.
One thing that took me by surprise is that there is no real-
time clock on the board. This is probably due to the fact that
there is no room on the board, but just one of those things you
take for granted, and when your Workbench clock starts dis-
playing 5.14pm just after lunch time it is a bit of a shock to the
system as you want to go home.
tiUJT II rlEtiWi f'\ \ EiEjrJfrJJS I
It's thm obligatory Sysfnfo screen grab. Pretty much aaya it alt I think
side being that it's not Ihe sort of board
you can be whipping in and out of your
Amiga because to remove the board your
need io lever the SCSI connector out of
the trapdoor.
Power supply the board in a number of
configurations depending on what your
needs arc and how deep your pockets
are. You can purchase a bare board and
get ihe processor yourself. The 040
options consist of either a full 25 Mh2 040
chip or the LC version, which omits the
MMU. So if you don't need to use virtual
memory or run Enforcer, you can save 80
quid. The final option is the full 060 hum-
mer version which will run up to 70 times
as fast as a standard A 12001! /p^f
The bottom line
Product: Falcon
Supplier: Power Computing
Price: Bare: £319
040!c:£429
040: £499
060: £649
Phone: 01234 273000
Ease of use
Implementation
Value for money
Overall
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Amiga Computing
DECEMBER 1995
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Ulag comparison
Perfect mag July 95! Both the disks
and editorial were excellent. Each
month I buy Amiga Computing and
Amiga Shopper, I find Shopper nor-
mally has very good editorial (no
games!), although some of their
coverdisks seem to be rather out of
date (Pretext 4-3). Amiga Format is not
much belter either, flogging the
sensible Gotf demo twice.
CU Amiga usually has good disks,
i.e. Image/FX, but their actual maga-
zine is a little disappointing and rather
heavy on games content.
Amiga Computing seems to have got
the combination near perfect, The first
of your Utility Heaven' disks was
superb. I had just installed Workbench
on my new hard drive, so the Multi CX
and MUI utilities were both excellent.
The format of the disks is good loo,
Una re hiving straight to RAM is a great
idea; I rarely use a program I can't
unarehwe and run straight from RAM.
Mark Ciaiwortrty. Herstmonceaux
Our second letter from Mr
Clatworthy in as many months. We
like to think we have the balance
right too. I'm pleased you liked our
MUI CoverDisk - we've had a lot of
mait praising it. As lor the format of
the disks, I hops you like the
installer script that was put on our
disks from ths September Issue,
written by our erstwhile CoverDisk
editor Neil Mohr.
M
Amiga Computing has recentlti become an
international publication with a US edition —
going out to subscribers of the nam
defunct Amiga World ft seems from the —
amount of mail the change has proved —
quite popular with our American cousins
[ Gamer?
I am writing about a section in your news pages in the September issue. You said that
version 2.1 at the Emplant E586DX PC smulator is available and will run games such as
Doom. Does this mean it will run Doom It and games like Magic Carpet, Tie Fighter and
&Wing?
What is the price and where can I gel ii from? Also, I have a bog standard Amiga. Do
you think I should gel a 54fjMb internal hard drive for El 74.99 or a CD-ROM drive.
Since you have started giving helpful hints and tips lately. I have a question for you, In
Lure of the Temptress I have broken oul of jail and gone round talking to people. 1 went
into the wizard's house and found nothing, What else should I be doing?
In Dune I have defeated all the Harkonnen Fortress but Ihe palace still stands - am I
supposed to get men to do the ecology stuff? SOS please.
PS. I enjoy your mag a lot but I Ihmk it could do with a tad more games reviews. Keep
up Ihe good work.
Michael Ryan, address unknown
Unfortunately, you would need a somewhat better equipped Amiga than the one
you presently have to even be able to run Emplant. For a start, the Emplant is actu-
ally a Zorro II card that fits inside a big box Amiga like an A40QU A 3000 or A 1500.
Secondly, it needs a very swift processor to get anything like adequate perfor-
mance, I'm assuming you have a base level A 1200 as you don't say in your letter,
Thirdly, it also really needs a graphics card {which would also need a big box
Amiga) for the display to update fast enough. But yes, if you can fulfil all these
criteria, you would be able to play the games you mention, although perhaps not
as well as you would on the PC you could have bought for the money you spent
on your Amiga to make it possible.
As for whether you should buy a hard drive Or a CD-ROM drive, there is no
question that a hard drive will be of greater benefit to you. Buy a CD-ROM later,
there isn't that much by way of good quality CDs yet, so you re not missing out.
I'm afraid I can't really help you out on the games tips, not being a games player,
but as to your request for more games reviews. I can say that we would gladly put
more games reviews in Ihe magazine if only there were more games out there to
review.
P[ Amiga, Hmiga Pt. just like that
My system currently consists of an Amiga
1500, 1Mb RAM, two printers and a Sony
TV/ monitor, What would you do if you
didn't kne-w whether to buy OS 3.1 or an
EGS Spectrum? That's the decision I'm
trying to make at Ihe moment - I just don't
know which way to go. So. if you were in
my position, what would you do?
Here are my new Amiga suggestions. A
range of five or six Amigas isn't going to
take over a range of 20-30 PCs worldwide,
so why don't some Amigas become part of
the PC range. This means they could be
an original Amiga and a PC in one bo* lor
about half the price of a PC computer. The
machine could incorporate PC ports, a PC
mouse and joystick, MS-DOS G. Windows
95, Amiga ports, an Amiga mouse and joy-
stick, AmigaDOS 3.1 and Workbench 3.1.
If that was sold for half the price Of Ihe
cheapest PC, i think Escom would get
loads of customers-
For Amigas thai were bought before
Commodore went bankrupt, (here could be
plug-in modules for the A500, A500+,
A600 and A1200 which would have PC
ports on it and would allow standard PC
cards lo be plugged into the Amiga, all
powered from an external PSU. All Amigas
that are A1500s and above could have
internal modules. These plug-in modules
could also be supplied with the new
A1 2Q0s to make them mote expandable.
I aiso have some questions: Why wasn'l
Amiga Computing
DECEMBER 1995
[omms sans
modem
I am starting a disk-based BBS called
Off Net which has been designed so
Ihfit LtSSTS with no money to buy
modems can enjoy sending mes-
sages to other members. Everyone
nnnrirji in their messages and I put
them onto OffNet and send them out
to all members,
rf any of your readers are interested
in joining (it's completely free, by the
way), then please send your name
nnd BddnBSS, •* blank disk and 50p for
postage and packing to: OffMet,
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Mark Wadttam, OffNet
A brave and bold attempt Mark.
Amiga Computing wishes you lots of
luck in your enterprise. Interested
readers should contact Mark at the
address given.
Amiga who?
Dear Amiga Action, (sic). As the days of
the Amiga looked darker the grim
prospect of switching lo Macintosh or -
heaven preserve us - a PC with Windows
became more realistic. It's a comfort to
most faithful Amiga users thai the
Commodore liquidation has been settled
and the Amiga technology is In safe
hands. I, and I'm sure many other Amiga
users, hope that ihe Amiga will keep its
unique operating system and it will never
lose the user-accessible power that first
fascinated us.
I applaud Amiga Action's (yep. sic
again) wonderful coverage of the latest
Amiga news, and the wonderful coverage
of the different interests in Ihe Amiga
world. (I only recently discovered your
magazine, quite by accident, upon the
exlinction of Amiga World.) Good job!
Keep il up!
I would also like to suggest an arti-
cle on graphics effects, animations
and tips and tricks using such com-
mon material as Deluxe Paint III or
IV. I am a game graphic producer
myself and a lo( of my professional
tricks come from Amiga's World
regular feature, Accent on
Graphics. Even the average Amiga
owner loves to play with DPaint and
I'm sure would appreciate such an
article, Remember, users of relaiively
inexpensive pami programs such as
DPaint are much more common than
LighlWave users.
I have a sample disk of my artwork and
am currently looking for a game to illus-
trate in my spare time. II Amiga Action
{he's wrrtten tins not us) is interested in
including my graphics on the CoverDlsk or
knows of a PD programmer who needs
artwork done, please write back.
Joseph Grippe. Box 495. BeNbuckte 77V,
USA 37020
I think Mr Drippe must have been out
in the rain too long. He addressed his
letter to ESP at Amiga Computing, but
keeps referring to Amiga Action in the
body of his, letter. However, I'm sure he
is talking to us because when I men-
tioned operating systems to the guys
letters please
at Amiga Action they thought it was a
new combat game. We've included
Mr Drippe's address for anyone
who fancies some American
graphics for their program.
Keep those letters coming! If you
can't be bothered to find a bit of
paper end a stamp, why not e-mail
us? Simply point your mailer to.
ESP@acomp.demon.co.uk
There's a £50 pound prize for
L ^ the best letter printed as
k. an incentive a
Interchangeable
letter
I am wnting to enquire where I can gel
hold of a copy of Interchange Plus v3 as
mentioned by Mr Whiteley in his video
column in your September issue. I am a
regular reader ol Amiga Computing, so
keep up Ihe good work and long live the
Amiga.
MrAJHaslett, Stevenage
I would like to say that this is an easy
query to deal with, Mr. Haslett, but in
these days of fewer and fewer serious
Amiga dealers, I couldn't find a single
one that actually stocks Interchange
Plus at the moment. However, dealers
like White Knight Technology (01920
822321). First Computer Centre (0113
231-9444) and Emerald Creative (0181
715-8666) do deal with American dis-
tributors so they should have little
trouble finding it for you.
PD beginner
I am a 12-year old would-be programmer and am
thinking of opening a PD library, I have already got
plenty of PD from magazines - can t use this? I also
have plenty of shareware - can I sell it? t have
Wordworth 3.1SE. but how can I use it to design an
advert?
Please gwe me info and possibly more.
Sean Talbot, Great Bookham
What you are attempting to do, Sean, wilt lake a
lot of perseverance and hard work. You can use
the software you find on eoverdisks. but only
titles which are listed as being public domain or
shareware software. If you check the documenta-
tion for every program you want 10 sell, you
should be able to determine whether you will be
allowed to include it In your library or not.
One thing to consider getting would be a modem
so that you can get software from bulletin boards
like 01 for Amiga or the Aminet sites on the
Internet, Advertising in a publication like Amiga
Computing is not cheap, but you can prim out an
ad from Wordworth and send it in for the artwork to
be recreated from your layout here. Make sure your
spelling and grammar are correct, because other-
wise your ad will not look professional and you
won't get many customers. Finally, if you do wish
to set up a PD library, l wish you the besl of luck
Commodore's saga reported on British TV
news? Will all Amiga software run on the
new A 1200s? Does OS3.1 allow you to run
Windows programs on Workbench? Does
it allow more soflware to be run than
Workbench 2? Does the Amiga 1 500 have
a SCSI port, allowing a CD-ROM to be
plugged in?
Tony Halt, Gloucester
To take your points in order: Buy 053-1,
but be aware that it really needs a hard
drive. You don't have the memory or
monitor necessary to run an EGS
Spectrum and you wouldn't get full ben-
efit from it without OS3.1 anyway, The
Spectrum really needs a minimum of
4Mb RAM to work to its best advantage
and a proper multiscan monitor. This
would also mean that you would need
to buy a flicker finer for your A1500 so
that you could display normal Amiga
graphics on the multiscan monitor,
along with the Spectrum's graphics.
There Is a fatal flaw in your sugges-
tion, as appealing as it seems, The
cheapest Amiga is officially about £400,
ihe cheapest (reasonable) PC about
£600 including VAT.
How would any company be able to
offered a combined package for around
the £300 mark? Also, the ability to plug
In PC cards is only really useful if there
is driver software written to take
Amiga Computing
advantage of them for the Amiga.
Commodores sage wasn't reported on
British TV news because it wasn't impor-
tant enough to anyone other than Amiga
owners-
No, you would need a PC emulator to
allow you to run Windows programs on
your Amiga.
Sort of- There are programs that
require WB3.x to run, such as datatypes-
Not as standard, as I'm sure you
already know. You can buy a hard drive
controller card which has an external
SCSI port or alternatively, you can buy
an internal CD-ROM drive and put it in
the 51/4" bay of your machine and
attach it to the SCSI controller internally.
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TECHNICAL
Problem programs
i
*_ I own an A1 200 wllh a 420Mb external hard drive. Whenever I try to run games
3 off my external hard drive they have crashed graphics, but on my friend's
internal hard drive the games work fine - why is this?
I have also been trying to run some of my older coverdisk programs, but when
I try to run Ihem off the hard drive I get the message software error 80000005 suspend Or
reboot.
If I reboot and then change the chip type to original they work fine. Would they work on
an internal drive or do you still have to change the chipset to original''
Keith Whitfield, Kent
rA lot of older games and programs that were originally written on the
AS00 and A2000 took a lot of things for granted with regards to the OS
and the graphics hardware. When the A12O0 came out with its new 05
arid graphics hardware, many of the older Amiga programs ceased to work, as
they were doing things the new graphics hardware did not like.
One of the side effects is the crashed graphics effect you are seeing. The AGA
chipset can display a huge number of new screen modes, but as older programs
are assuming they will be run on the old chipset, all the graphics appear corrupt.
When you switch to original chfpset the A 1200 tries it s best to look like a nor-
mal AS00, which is why older programs will work, tf you still have problems you
can try turning off the CPU cache in the early startup menu, accessed by holding
down both the mouse buttons when you reset your machine. Or try any Of the
numerous degrader programs such as TUDE.
Running the games off an internal or external drive should make no difference.
You do not say what Amiga your friend has. If they have an A12QTJ then perhaps
they have changed the way the program starts or the computer boots up.
Harrowing hard
driues
^j I havg a standard AS00 to which I
*■ recently added a Gasleiner
120Mb hard drive. The problem I
am having is that I now cannot run any of
my 1Mb software as the computer keeps
saying il does not have enough memory
available, even though it does from floppy.
I contacted Gasleiner and. although
they were very polite, they were of little
help. The engineer did tell me that the
hard drive uses up some of the RAM, so
1Mb games will not run from it - even
though they do install perfectly. He said
the only way to cure this is to add more
memory.
is there any way to get the hard drive to
reiease this memory as it loads in pro-
grams? Or are there any other ways of
adding extra memory considering the trap
door is occupied?
If I cannot add any more memory is
there any way of connecting the hard drive
through the PCMCIA slot?
D Simmons, Herts
*^ It is true that each hard drive
ih U partition you have requires
extra memory, for things like
disk buffers, The disk buffers help to
increase the speed of access to the
hard drive but each one uses memory,
so the more partitions you have the
more memory you will loose.
Generally, you only need two parti-
tions - one to hold your Workbench
files on and the other to hold, well, your
other files. Using the HDToolBox utility,
if you select partition drive and then
click on advanced options, you can
specify the number of buffers that
should be allocated. This should nor-
mally be around 32 - any less or much
more slows access.
The best chance you have of getting
a game to run off your hard drive is to
reset your machine holding both the
mouse keys down. Then select boot
with no startup-sequence, type assign
ENV: ENV ARC: and then loadwb.
If your games still will not load you
can gain a few more K by typing
addbuffers -SO. This removes the hard
drive's buffers and can gain you about
60k.
After all that, if the games still will not
load the only way is for you to buy
some extra memory. In your letter you
say your trapdoor slot is taken, but a
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AMIGA COMPUTING ADVICE SERVICE
Stop tearing huge ttmnks of your hm — i
out RMS is here to soothe hum soul — I
properly fitted hard drive should not
do this. Perhaps you should double
check how the hard drive has been
fitted.
The only other options are either to
buy a PCMCIA memory card, which
you will need to look in a PC magazine
for, or buy a bear Overdrive mecha-
nism which fits into the PCMCIA slot.
Both of these, however, are far more
expensive than just getting hold of a
A600 trapdoor memory card, which
only cost around £30.
Harrowing hard
driues II
'>
"^ I am having a horrendous time
■^ with my HDD boot partition, it
seems to have a checksum error
on one of the blocks. My HD1 partition
StichM startup
I hope you can help as I seem lo have
4*Y* lost the startup-sequence for my GVP
* hard drive. Basically, when I switch on
my computer it continuously comes up
with requesters moaning about not being able lo
find volumes ENV and T, among olher things, If I
boot from the Workbench 2 floppy then I get
some access to the hard drive. What can I do?
R Gray, Orkney
Well, it sounds as If some naughty pro-
•VjA gram has been tinkering with your start-
up-sequence, which From Workbench
2.04 you shouldn't do anymore, When Workbench
starts up a number of assigns have to be made.
Without these a lol of programs get very
confused and start complaining big style - the
ENV: assign being one of these and one of I he
most important,
There is a fairly simple solution to your prob-
lem. Ail you have to do is re pi ace your startup -
sequence with a new copy, So if you boot up with
the Workbench 2 disk and open a shell, type copy
s:stsrtup-sequBncs TO dh0:s which will replace
your corrupt startup sequence with the correct
version.
Amiga Computing
nFHFMRFR 19 95
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TECHNICAL
Do you have a problem? Do you some-
times find yourself poised aver your
U Amiga with axe in hand, spouting
profanity at the stubborn refusal of your
software or hardware to behave properly?
Well, calm down and swap the axe for
pen and paper, jot down your problems,
along with a description of your Amiga
setup, and send i1 off to Amiga Computing Advice Service,
IDG Media, Media House. Adlinglon Park. Macclesfield SK10
4NP, Alternatively, e-mail us at ACAS@acomp.demor.co.uk
seems to be find, Sometimes when I turn
on my machine the purple screen
appears, asking me to insert a disk, II I
itien reset my machine it will bool off the
hard drive but the startup-sequence does
nol seem to run, as I only get a 4 colour
screen and no DblPAL
I have tned various recover lools such
as DiskSalv, GBTools and AmiBack, but
they all seem to find problems and when I
try to get them to repair Ihe drive ihey
crash after about half an hour.
It also appears as if all Ihe icons from
the drawers are gone, but not the actual
Disk. info icon. I can't enter any of the
directories using the shell, but none of my
programs are saying the disk is nol vali-
dated, and the disk is nol 100% full, which
is usually the case of a non validated disk.
R Borst, Netherlands
^ Oh dear, you seem to be In a
L ■; spot of bother. I have had my
share of validating and check-
sum errors in my time, but I have
never had some of the symptoms you
describe.
In this situation I would either just
gel DiskSalv to do a straight repair,
which is normally enough to restore
the partition to its original state, or
do a QuicK format - which does not
actually wipe any of the data on
Ihe drive - and then try to recover
as much as possible. In your case
you will have lo try the second
option.
It is strange that you are getting the
purple boot screen, as this is normally
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questions?
Going nowhere
"^j I am having trouble starting up Epoch Voyager which was on your coverdisk.
** I have an ASOO+. and an external drive. When I click on the
epochVoyagervialconX icon, the disk drive churns away until I receive the
error message 'Cannot find or install Womble font. Make sure you have a font direc-
tory.' 1 have tried renaming the Fonts directory to FONTS and have also put a fonts
directory on the program disk itself but it does not help, HELP!
J Hayes, Cardiff
p- Epoch Voyager is a little strange in that the Womble font it refers to is
actually stored In the program. When you first run It, it tries to copy
this font off into your fonts directory and if there is no fonts assign you
will get the. 'cannot find or install' error message-
Epoch Voyager is trying to use the FONTS: assign to locate the font called
Womble. font. The FONT: assign should point to the directory where the
Womble font will be copied to.
There are a couple of ways to cure this problem. If you are booting from your
Workbench disk and then running epoch Voyager off your external drive, when
you now try lo run epoch Voyager, the FONTS: assign has already been made,
so it will run.
associated with a hardware problem.
The computer la not able to find the
hard drive, in fact it thinks the hard
drive is not connected. So it would
have to be either a really bad software
error or a hardware problem.
If a quick formal does nol do the
trick then I can Only suggest com-
pletely formatting that partition. If this
is the case you will have to use that
back up you made of your HDO:. Vou
did backup your hard drive didn't
you? If nol, you are unfortunately
going to have to reinstall the whole
thing by yourself,
Hmo5 un-
professional
^ For at least two years I have
■* been silling on AMOS profes-
sional - the original copy with
example disks. The problem I am having
is thai it will not work on my A1200,
despite a free upgrade sent to me from
the company. After booting I have audio
but just a blank screen. This is also Ihe
case with any programs written in Amos.
As TUDE given away on your cover disk
didn't help I was hoping you could give
me a tip
R Hargrove, Germany
r The answer Is fairly straight-
*» „" forward, if a little perplexing.
Amos pro, and any program
written with it, will simply not work
with an A 1200 that has extra memory.
The only answer Is to rip out your
memory expansion.
I would love to know why this hap-
pens, as I have also tried all sorts of
things trying to get AMOS pro games to
work. If you have left your computer off
for a good few hours, the AMOS pro
programs do tend to work for a longer
period, bul once they start Socking up
your computer you can forget it.
If anyone has a reason why this hap-
pens, I would love to know, and better
still if you have an answer to this prob-
lem please send it In.
Don't detail, upgrade todau;!!
I have an A500 with 2Mb of memory,
T Workbench 1 .3, and two external disk
' — drives. I am becoming more and more
Irustrated that Ihe coverdisks on com-
puter magazines require hard drives and
Workbench 2.04, 3,0 etc.
My question is, if I upgrade to OS3.1 by
changing my kick start chip will it effect the
memory in any way, or slow my A500 down.
G Barnahy, Gwent
jr~ Unless you are exclusively using
Li k your Amiga for games then I would
implore you !□ upgrade to the latest
version of the OS. When OS2 was first
released I upgraded as soon as I could and
never regretted it once, and now OS3,1 is
far belter than even that old release, with
almost every aspect of Workbench being
user definable.
Under 0S1.3 you are confined to only rea-
lly being able to use one of the many file utili-
ties and the Amiga shell. The latest
Workbench is tar more enjoyable to use, and
with the addition of programs such a
Toolmanager. MagicMenu and MCP or
MultiCX, I very rarely have to resort to using
things like DOpus.
This is not to mention the more important
side of things, In that almost all serious'
software will require you to have at least
OS2.04 before it will work. And with OS3
Introducing datatypes. MultiView, double
buffering, and many graphics optimisations
programs are now appearing that are OS3
only.
To actually answer your question.
Workbench 3.1 will not effect your memory in
anyway, and should appear to actually work
quicker than Ihe old operating system, with
windows and menus redrawing faster than
before. The only thing you should watch out
for is that it will probably use an extra 100K
or so due to all the new libraries and
datatypes that are present.
Amiga Computing
DFC:F MRER 1995
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centre ot The beautiful city of Exeter, we're easy to find and are one
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Programmed by: Various
Available from: Seasoft
This disk contains a really interesting col-
lection of utilities. First up is icon I mage a
useful program designed to do a simple
task quickly. When run il adds itself to the
Worichench Tools menu and opens up an
Applcon. Now drop another icon onto this
and the dropped icon also appear as an
Applcon on the Workbench, Now drop any
other icon onto this Applcon and the
dropped icon image is replaced by the
Applcon image. Follow that?
Slightly simpler to explain are EaayWB
and Drop "n Act 2, These both sel up an
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that can make your Amiga a lot more
powerful. Aflexx scripts can effect-
ively automate lengthy and tedious
tasks, which is why so many Word
and Image Processing applications
make extensive use of them. It is also
possible, for example, to send a file
from one program to another per-
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ned out. This is an extremely good idea,
originally employed on the unfortunately
buggy Drop Box and more recently on
DropTool and ClassAction. I still prefer the
latter, however, if only because of the
greater flexibility it offers. Al the end of the
day though, any one of these programs
(with Ihe exception of Dropbox which does
strange things on WB 3.x machines) will
make using Workbench an awful lot more
pleasant.
ToolAlias is anolher example of a good
idea which is slightly let down in its imple-
meniaiion. Running as a Commodity, it
This nicely organised AmigaGuide file
explains exactly what can be
achieved using AFtexx and how to
achieve it. The step-by-step tutorials
are simple to follow but the guide is
certainly comprehensive, as a quick
look at the lengthy index will confirm.
Since A1200S are not supplied with a
copy of the standard printed guide to
ARexx, this disk should prove
invaluable to many Amiga owners.
While the complete AmigaGuide
document Is supplied on the disk, it is
shareware so you are morally obliged
to register if you make use of it. The
$15 registration fee is less than a
book on the subject would cost, and
is not unreasonable considering the
enables the user to substitute defauli toots
with their own favourite tools. For example.
ii could be set up so lhat even double-
clicking on a file which had MuchMore as
the default tool would resull in PPMore or
Mulliview being called. The program is lei
down by a slightly irritating interface which
makes entering your preferences
something of a chore.
Cybernetic Attorney is designed to
assist in the preparation of legal docu-
ments, providing forms which only need a
few relevant details adding before they are
ready lo use. The documents were origi-
nally created for use in Ihe United States,
but few changes would be necessary for
the program to be usefully employed on
ihis side of the pond. This demo version
contains only a few documents, but the
registered version includes forms for all
manner of situations.
Among the resl are Wasied Time, which
keeps track ol ihe lime you're spending on
your Amiga each day; ClearRAM, which
empties the RAM Disk quickly but without
deleiing the vital Clipboards, ElMV and T
drawers: and HDSIeep, which (urns off
your hard drive motor after a preset period
of time - although quite why you'd want to
do this is somertiing of a mystery.
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Amiga Computing
DECEMBER 1995
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of the month
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Produced by: Ben Cowdall
Available from: Ben Cowdall
This is just a little- bit silly. Plenty of
imagination has been used in the cre-
ation ol some truly wacky pictures in
which Lee Majors advocates all manner
of bizarre Ihings from Surfing While
Pregnant to The Desert Burial Of
Richard Gere, all to ihe accompaniment
of a bizarre tune, My personal favourite.
however, is easily Lee Majors advocat-
ing a Lone Crusade Against The Posl
Apocalyptic. Radiation-Soaked Armies
Lor* (ft* *HO*», L**
01 Darkness, Don't expect stunning art-
work, but be prepared for some serious
laughter.
Forthcoming titles from the same man
include Stars on Teletext and The History
Of Quorn, which definitely sound like
Ihey'll be worth looking out for, Textured
vegetable protein in particular does indeed
have great potential as an object of
ndicule.
D and SHAREWARE
III-
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Svp^r Daieks hit
Mn I rquittnd graphics but
ehallanaing qamaplay
Rssassins dish SID
Programmed by: Various
Available from: Seasofi
This Assassins game disk includes three
pretty reasonable offerings. Catapults.
Muhtar and Super Daieks, which should
help while away those long winter
evenings.
Catapults is vaguely reminiscent of
1 9a0's action board game Crossbows And
Catapults.. Two players each construe! a
castle, and must then use their catapult to
destroy ihe opponents fortress before
Dtuigning a stronghold before
commencing bailie in Catapults
their own tails. Catapults has an added
element, however, in that ihe population
of the strongholds are under threat not
only from the opposition but also from
possible lack of food or water. To ensure
that such subsistence shortfalls do not
occur, it's important when designing your
fortifications to allow some land for grow-
ing food, and to make sure your well is not
a position where it can be easily
destroyed by your enemy. This is an
enjoyable enough game if played with a
friend, although it's scarcely going to stun
you with its graphics and sound effects.
Muhtar is, as it were, a collect-'em-up.
The sole objective is 10 collect Ihe numer-
ous items scattered around the single-
screen levels within the strict time limit.
Unfortunately, since this is achieved by
simply taking the shortest possible route
around the screen. Ihe first few levels
prove boringly easy, and when the time
limit starts to get really lough things just
get frustrating and tedious.
Super Daieks was written by a Finn
who says he's never seen Doctor Who, so
he's made up a really wacky story as to
how the Doctor became involved with the
infamous extra-terrestrial warmongered,
It's a simple game which I'm sure is based
on an age old program, the objective
being to lure the chasing Daieks into traps
by moving slep by step while the mindless
baddies follow. It looks a bit dated but it
can be quite challenging, requiring a good
amount of thought at times.
As individual efforts, none of the three
LEE MUM15 ADVXATES THE Y/EARIHG OF GWOif XJMPE^S^le RKUNIrtG MA EEAfJ GAG
RECOUMllHG SCAFY STORIES 10 J HtfPTOTlZED PIMP.
LEI MAJORS'
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Chirm THrrt
Mahjong has
ntwr bean to
much fun
The strange
world of l»«
Majors * 7.
What must
be going on
in Bait
Cowdall'i
mind?
I want to hear from you if you have any
program, whatever its purpose, which
you consider worthy of review. Whether
it will be freely distributable public
domain, shareware or licenceware, if
you feel ifs or sufficient quality 10 merit
coverage then stick it in a jiffy bag or
padded envelope and send il in with all
haste. I promise I'll at leasl look at your
work - even if it's yet another Loltery
program or Klondike cardset, It does
make my |ob a lot easier though If disks
are clearly labelled, Please also include
a cover letter detailing the disk contents
and price and giving some basic
instructions, The magic address is:
Dave Cusick
PD submissions
Amiga Computing
Media House
Adlington Park
Macclesfield SK10 4NP
games are going to win any awards, but
together they stand up fairly well, and at
£1 .50 a throw it's hard to go wrong.
Assassins dish W&
Programmed by: Various
Available from: Season
Here we have China Tiles, MineRunner
and ThinkAMania. The first is a Mahjong
clone with attredive graphics, lack of
originality being excusable on the
grounds that this is a great little game. It
also features Help, Cheal and Undo
options, moaning that even ihe most
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DECEMBER 1 995
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PD and SHAREWARE
pH Karaoke
Programmed by; Mark Alliban and Paul
Humphries
Available Irom: On Line PD
Disk No. OU212
Full marks for originality, because Ihis is definitely
the first time I've seen a PD karaoke package. The
idea is very simple; stick a tune on CD or tape and
load the relevant tile into pH Karaoke, then watch the
words scroll smoothly up the screen and sing them
as they pass across a big blue line.
As the authors say, Ihis is Ihe sort or daft program
that could go down a treat at parties or drunken
orgies. Drag your unsuspecting chums to the com-
puter and then hit them wilh REM or Genesis (some
of my friends do this unprovoked anyway). The
comic potential is pretty great.
I haven't experienced any problems when testing
it with CDs, but if ihe worst comes to the worst and
Ihe words on the screen don't seem to match the
dull-witted individual can enjoy a quick
crack.
In MineRunner. an unashamed
LodeRunner clone, Ihe objective is to
beal your computer-controlled opponents
to the gold scattered around the many
single screen platform levels. The graph-
ics and sound are pretty basic but those
who value the son of piayaoiliiy that many
old 8-bit games possessed will (eel
instantly at home with this. There are also
seme nice options, such as the support
for various monitors and for the use of
Sega MegaDrive control pads as two-but-
ton joysticks.
The final game, ThlnkAMania, is a
memory test. The aim is to clear a
screenful of cards by turning them over
two at a time, and removing them if they
have matching pictures. Excellent graph-
ics add another dimension to this hugely
diverting offering, and I'd certainly recom-
mend getting this installed on your hard
drive. As with increasing amounts of soft-
ware these days, it's shareware, so don't
forget about ihe author when you're sit-
ting in front of the screen late at night try-
ing to remember the location of the other
card showing a cute pink bunny rabbit.
Fortunately, dear
renders, you can-
not hoar nrhjl win
c;m: Andy M.iddocfc
strangling
B-Qh+mfan
Rhapmody think*
to pU Karaoka...
Find the answer within
...*nd f hatm to
think what Andy
will do to
flocking Alt Over
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music on your stereo, it is possible to adjust trie
speed the words scroll at.
The program is supplied with over 30 song files.
but users who register tar a meagre fiver will receive
the authors' latest karaoke conversions and a
program allowing them to create their own files.
Entering the
were Jt % tlxtur*m r i
a twift anil simple
operation owing
to Pro Football's
mtiMtiva interface
Pro Football, because once again Ali has
come up with a brilliant program. It's hard
to I ell whether you will actually stand a
better chance of winning the pools with
this result predictor, but this certainly
appears 10 be one of the best programs
of its kind.
Fixtures and results are entered using
the same intelligent system that Pro
Gamble sported - enter a couple of let-
ters of a team name and the program fills
Ben Cowdall
23 Barn Way, Cirencester,
Gloucestershire GL7 2LY
Cost: £1.25
(Cheques payable to BJ Cowdall)
David Hill,
165 Owen Avenue, The Murray. East
Kilbride G75 9 AC
Cost: £1Q for registered version
KEW=II Software
PO Box €72. South Croydon. Surrey
CR2 9YS
Tel; 0181-657 1617
LH Publishing,
13 Gairloch Avenue, Bletchley
MK2 3DH
Cost: C5.99
Ali Prior
10 Lovell Park Heights. Leeds
LS7 1DP
Seasoft,
Unit 3, Martetlo Enterprise Centre,
Courtwick Lane. Littlehampton.
WestSussexBfM17 7PA
Cost: £1 .50 per disk plus 50 p PAP
in the rest, There's on-line help available
ihroughout should you need it r although
il's unlikely because ihe interface is so
clear and well designed
The full program is shareware.
However, send a blank disk and an SAE
to the author and you'll receive a Free
demonstralion version. Mention Amiga
Computing and you'll even get a third off
the registration fee for the full version.
This man is just too kind. L'*f
Pro Football
Programmed by: Ali Prior
Available from: Ali Prior
All's previous efforts. Pro Gamble and
Pro Lottery, both earned reviews in these
pages thanks to their extreme user-
friendliness, attractive presentation and
general all-round quality. Therefore, Mr
Prior's decision to send a basketful ot
chocolate footballs and a small plastic
whistle along with his iatest offering and
the trademark fluorescent orange letter
seemed a slightly strange one. Wot that
anybody in the office minded, of course,
Fortunately. I need have no qualms
about allegations of bribery for reviewing
Haunted Bu. You
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The king of Shareware image processors. Graham
and Andy Dean's ImageSludio, has now reached
version 2.2.0. In addition to an excellent range of
effects and full ARexx support, it now boasts a
colour preview window, and modularised loaders
and savers for scores of file types including PNG,
EPS, Targa and Tiff. The program is as stable as
ever, and represents great value for money at only
£10 for the full registered version. Those who have
already registered can use Iheir keyfile to unlock the
latest demonstration version.
There's also now a printed version of the manual,
which is nicely designed and illustrated and costs
£5.99, It Is supplied with the latest unregistered
version of the program and can be obtained from
Larry Hickmotl at LH Publishing.
Another program which seems to keep on improv-
ing ai a phenomenal pace is David Hill's disk cata-
loguing program, TurboCAT. Now with Ihe suffix Pro,
it offers the opportunity to have six databases run-
ning, allows access to the main cataloguing section
and the search section at the start of the program,
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Pota/mrlui imago pracoiiing at in jwtfordabin prlcv:
the alt-singing, ail-dancing ImatteStudio £.2.0
and has undergone something of an overhaul
visually. A PD demo Is available, with registration
costing a tenner. Those who have already registered
can upgrade simply by sending Mr Hill two blank
disks and an SAE.
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Magic pack contains two art packages, and the
A1200 itself is equipped to sand
graphics straight to video, hawing a composite
output built into the machine. This means you
can record your animation and graphics work
straight to video without requiring any
additional hardware or software.
But lets not forget the Amiga's musical tal-
ents either. With packages such as Octamed
suit any taste, from the classical to the down-
ment that conforms to the MIDI standard then
you can buy a sequencer package for your
Amiga along with a MIDI interlace and control
your keyboards through the Amiga.
And just because the Amiga excels at art and
music, it doesn't mean it is less capable at the
more serious aspects of computing. In the soft-
ware bundle that comes with the new Amiga
1200 you will get one of the top word process-
with a splendid spreadsheet program,
database, and a personal organiser,
The Amiga is also a talented performer in the
lighter side of digital entertainment. Some of
the worlds most famous game names got thew
start on this platform, not to mention their
-i-m„„ i.i,., i amminnci Pinhnll Fantasies,
Sensible Soccer and Speedbaii were first
released for our favourite machine, and there is
an enormous range of shareware and PD
games whose quality sometimes rivals that of
the most accomplished software heuses.
|f you are lucky enough to be able to afford
the hard drive version, the benefits are even
greater.
Workbench runs
a lot faster and is
more flexible
from a hard drive,
witl
receive an extra
piece of software
called Scale
MM300 In the
bundle.
Scala is used
corporations and
intern aticjnfi I
sentations. cor-
porate '■ ; video
tilling, and- nuic
more. That *t is so f I.
can he surnhfirrro.)):
surprising ae
the Amiga Comouting team grab the
new Amiga Magic bundle and chech
mt the software that comes with it
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and images flying over the screen ;like
pro.
Want to add graphics to your sisters wed-
ding video? Scala is your program oUhoiee.
With all these advantages, it s easif to. isW why
millions of people the world over chose the
Amiga as
theif compute* &f
phoice, -and J***, own'
J any
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Turn'lhe page' to check oi
^Hearts on the eight pieces of self"
make up the bundle for 1he At 200, -
out for tutorials for using your Amiga in the
coming months.
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FEATURE
The test solution for 24-bit painting on a
budget, Phoiogenics offers unbe-
lievable power for a very low price
\(we)l, nothing in fact because it's
included free in the bundle - ed). The
bundled version that comes with the
^ new A1 200 pack has been limited
~^V in certain respects, but if you
L send in your registration card to
I the nice people at Aimathera, they
"L. j^u instantly send you out e
disk with a demo of the full
i version of Photogenics so you
1 see what you are missing,
whet exactly is Photogenics?
Photogenic s combines the power of
image processing functions with painting
tools to allow you to create 24-bit pictures (a
24-bit picture is one that has a palette which
can consist of as many as 16,778.216
colours). Photogenics is ideal for retouch-
ing scans or video grabs, or just painling
from scratch onto fresh digital canvas. The
program can be a little slow a* times, but
this l$n't SO surprising when you realise the
amount of data that has 1o be calculated,
Photogenics doesn't have any animation
facilities because that is not where its focus
lies. It concentrates solely on the still image
- art for art's sake, you might say. One of
the major reasons for upgrading from the
bundled version of Photogenics to the com-
plete version would be the enhanced range
of file formats that Photogenics can load
and save.
In addition to standard file formats like
BMP and PCX. familiar to PC users, you can
U ' " I Hi
also make use of Photogenics' font loader,
which allows you to create text inside
Photogenics, and its Plasma loader which
generates a swirling fractal pattern. But even
more important than these are the full
version of Photogenics 1 support for alpha
channels and compositing functions.
A technical discussion of alpha channels
would toe too much to go into here, but if
you think of them as being like stencils
which allow you to overlay one image over
another, masking out parts of the image,
you'll have some idee. This extremely pow-
erful technique is used by professionals to
allow the Eiffel Tower to appear in the same
skyline as the Empire State building and Big
Ben, and has as many uses as you have
braincells.
For users familiar with Photogenics who
are contemplating buying a new A1 200, here
are some details of what is missing from the
full package:
4 No texl facility • No crop facility
• Ho compose facility
• Limited number of loaders and severs
t> No new icons support
• No cybergraphic support • No twirls
V No priming* No alpha channels
Comparison
To complemeril Photogenics. try ImageF/X v2.1
from Nova Design (£249.99 From Wizard
Developments 01322 272908), It was reviewed
in our Augusi issue and highly rated. You will
need mom memory In got Ihe best from it and a
hard drive is a must,
The version included
has been updated
and seems slightly
faster than the
previous release, -
tout some of ihe
more annoying
graphic glitches
have been cleared
up and it still
offers good value
for money. {Worth
£49.95)
Personal Paint ufi.1
The only one of ihe packages in this
bundle to have been included in previous
Amiga bundles. Personal Paint is a
stalwart of Amiga graphics. Designed to
work inside Ihe Amiga's palette range,
unlike Photogenics, Personal Paint gives
you the ability to work in anything from
two to 256 colours, perfect for on-screen
work and animation,
Personal Paint also has a few tweaks
over DPainl, the Amiga's best-known
paint package, These include "mage
processing functions that can be applied
to a brush, an area of the screen or the
entire picture, giving you effects like
embossing, blurring and gradient fills.
Personal Paint has more features than
you can shake a slick at, including
Stereogram generation (both SIPS and
SIRDS), colour reduction, image conver-
sion, virtual memory (a system- which
uses your hard drive as memory), ARexx
support and a completely user-definable
user inierface. Personal Paint still lacks
some of DPaint's finer details, like the
move requester, but at I oast Personal
Paini is still being developed
The fun doesn't stop there with
Personal Paint. Because it supports the
system clipboard, it makes the ideal
companion to your icon editor, letting
you use Personal Paint's far superior
tools for the creation of your icon, which
can then simply be copied and pasted
back into the icon editor.
This is just one of the ways in which
you can combine Personal Paint with
other software. You could take your 24-
bil output from Photogenics, load it into
Personal Paini which would then convert
it down to 256 colours (or fewer if you
wanted it to). You could then add a text
caption to ihe picture and save It back
out. Once you'd done this it would be
child's play to load up Word worth and
load the picture into a document, Ihus
accompanying your lexi with pictures.
[omparison
To complement Personal Paint, why
not try Deluxe Paint V by Electronic
Arls. It is available from a wide range
of dealers.
Deluxe Paini is Ihe program with
the longest pedigree on the Amiga (it
was also in the first bundling deal) and
was the first to provide an integrated
animation and painting environment in
one program,
Uerditt
Personal Paint is one of those
pieces of software thai was a bit
shaky to start with, but through
several years of development by a
committed publisher. Personal Paini
has thoroughly grown up. The
stereogram tools are the best (if not
the easiest to use) of any system 1
have seen on (he Amiga, and there
are (unctions that can be performed
In Personal Paint lhal can'l be
achieved at any price with olher
Amiga graphics software
Well done Cloanto and new
Amiga owners - you've got a great
bit of software there. (Worth E49 95)
Amiga Computing
hCr.CURCQ 1QOK
FEATURE
Turbocalc is probably the best-known spreadsheet on the
Amiga these days. Its looks hark back to Gold Disks Pro
Calc. now no longer in production, but is bang up-to-date
and brimming with features.
The copy of Turbocalc in the bundle is the full version,
lacking only the nice box and proper manual (most of the
bundled productivity software has one combined manual} of
the normal release. Turbocalc is originally a German
program, although the rights to it have been bought by
Amiga software giant Digita and further development will
bring it more into line with their other products. In Germany
it has sold over 50,000 copies over its three year life, which
is certainly not bad going,
The changes that have been made to Turbocalc since ver-
sion 2 are numerous and extensive. The program has been
updated to take advantage of all of Workbench 3, 1s abilities,
Including Locale support (for foreign language versions),
online help and system clipboard support. Turbocalc's
import and export functions are superb and allow the impor-
tation and exportation of sp/eadsheets in the most popular
formats (Excel and Lotus 123}, along with data compatibility
with the other Digita products included with the Amiga 1200
Magic pack. Turbocalc can create charts in a wide variety of
formats, from the simple bar to snazzy 3D pie charts and
scientific functions like sine waves and hyperbolic curves,
Another of the features that has been Improved is the way
you can move cell contents around. In common with many
packages on other platforms, you can click on the cell or
cells you wish to displace, then simply drag the cells to a
new location.
[nmparisDn
Once you've pul Turbocalc through it's paces, why raol have a
look at Final Gate from Softwood (con I act Gordon Harwood
01773 836781}, when il becomes available. Final Calc is the lat-
est in Softwood's software stable and should be graced with the
same clean, speedy interface as the other products in the range.
Uerdict
Until Final Calc gets released. Turbocalc is the Amiga's
premier spreadsheet, afterwards, well, we'll see, Turbocalc
can be somewhat idiosyncratic ai times, but even as it stands
il works well, Afler Digita get their mitts on it properly. I'm sure
Turbocalc will be the fnendliest spreadsheet available for any
platform. (Worth £49.95}
JElJ*i.UJ.±±l
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I December'
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Amiga Technologies" emphasis on the
Amiga's productivity power will never be
laken seriously unless the word-
processor comes up to scratch. After
all, spreadsheets and image processors
serve specialist requirements, bul
everyone needs to print a letter off once
in a while.
Fortunately, Wordworth SE already
has a good reputation with Amiga
enthusiasts as a good value word-
processor, and Ihe few important
additions included In the new version
can only make it more appealing.
For anyone unfamiliar with the
program, SE is a cut-down version of its
full priced sibling. It lacks some of its
big bro's more specialised features, but
retains the most commonly used tools
and, most importantly, will run on the
standard A 1200.
New for this version, Digita have
incorporated style sheets and ARexx
support. For most users il will be the
style sheels lhat have the greatest
impact on the way I hey work since they
allow tor drag and drop editing of your
document's layout, In effeel, they let
users manage their page layouts
more easily while allowing for greater
consistency between all of their
documents, Text is formatled instantly
by simply dragging and dropping a
particular style onto the desired section
of your work.
ARexx is the powerful interprocess
communication language which opens
up new possibilities for the more techni-
cally minded users. Basically, it will
allow you to control other programs
Irom wilhin Wordworlh, a feature that
was nol available in the last version.
The program's speed has also been
improved, Ihough Ihe pretty interface
still takes it toll by making SE a tad
sluggish for some tasks. File sharing
capabilities with Turbocalc are also
welcome additions, allowing users to
maximise their bundle.
[umparison
SE is a eul down version of the full
priced Wordworth, version 4 of which
should be available by Ihe time you
read this. The llagship program
includes advanced feaiures like a table
of contents generator or the librarian
facility, but then it costs more (£149 for
v.3.1) it won't work on the basic Amiga.
Final Writer Release 4 is equally
incomparable, since il now requires
3 Mb ol RAM and a nard drive.
Uerdict
Wordworth SE was an impressive
enough product when released at the
beginning of 1995, and this version
adds a few valuable extras that will be
the icing on the cake for many users.
It's not the most advanced word-
processor available for the Amiga, but
the combination of a colourful and
friendly interface, combined with
powerful features like auto-correction
and the new style sheets lift it tar
above Ihe level of poor man's
substitute, In all. SE is a package lhat
will serve the average user admirably.
(Worth E49.99)
Wordworth as may be cut **«, but mm*r
of tin o>»'gr> tools art Jcnpl In tact
Amiga Computing
FEATURE
Databases are rather dull by their
nature, but they serve a valuable
purpose and, as this program proves,
they cion"t have io be as bland as is
often expected. Dataslorc has, the
advantage of being about the most
modern looking database available
for I be Amiga.
The interface follows the principles
set by other Digila programs includ-
ing Wordworth, which means il fits
neatly in as part of the bundle. Users
can therefore expect colourful icons,
a floating tool bar. and online help Ig
make using the program more
intuitive,
Those of you who don't want to
spend too much time compiling files
of boring information will be relieved
to find Digits have included prede-
fined databases that will instantly
meel many enthusiast's needs. We
have, for example, the usual address
book along wilh others like club
membership records, plus supercar
collection and recipe files. These are
often colourfully designed with
Comparison
Data store will obviously be compared
with Final Data vf which is on our
CoverDisk this month, and it has to be
BBld il hoars up favourably when it
comes to cosmetic gloss, On the other |
hand, Final Data is faster, less fussy.
and appeals to people who want to get
the dull business ol data out of the
way, Datastore, however, has more
polish and will suit the hobbyist better
ittout/h at times if 'i stt tha fxjHfiH at spvud
pictures. Those that want to start from
scratch will find that ihc normal field
creation loo) used for slapping down
data is accompanied by powerful
design features. Records can be made
more interesting using the box.
caption and picture frame generators -
although as with Wordworth. use of
pictures tends to slow the program
down.
Naturally, a search facility is incor-
porated, bid more interesting is the
query tool that makes it easier to
organise your data. It's thanks to this
that users will find Datasfore particu-
larly adept at narrowing a search down
to a specific collection of records.
Uerdirt
An obvious choice to go wilh
Wordworth, this well received data-
base has been tweaked to remove
the odd bug and given a file sharing
facility for use with Turbocalc,
Datastore isn't new, but il still has a
very modern approach and it's
colourful design will appeal to many
database users. (Worth $49.99}
Scala will only be included with A120QS lhat come with a fitted hard drive. Hard drive
owners will not be supplied with the disks that Scala is installed from, nor a manual,
Users wishing to get these items can contact Scala UK on 01920 444294, where they
will be told what the situation is.
Scala is one of the killer apps thai makes the Amiga what rt is. In ils simplest form it
can be regarded as a superior video titling program, but Scala otters much more than
just that. This version supports ihe control of laser disc players and industrial video
recorders, is ARexx controllable, and comes with a wide selection of bitmap fonts and
professionally designed video resolution backdrops, Scala's interface is one of the most
intuitive of the Amiga and allows for a very quick start to your presentations,
Comparison
The only ihing on the market lhat
can beal Scala MM300's perfor-
mance is Scala MM400, so an
upgrade io that would be a good
move if you need the extra
power, but be aware thai the
best can only be had from either
version with additional RAM and
processor power.
Derdkt
Scala MM300 is possibly one of the best
pieces of software available for the Amiga,
and the tact lhat new Amiga owners will be
getting it for tree is a tribute to Amiga
Technologies powers of persuasion, This
package alone is worth the price of the hard
drive version of the A 1200. so if you can, save
your pennies for a hard drive equipped Amiga.
Organiser ul.1
The final package in the business/household software suite
from Digita is Organiser v1. and basically it's an electronic
Jilofax designed to lot users organise their work and social
appointments on computer.
Once again. Organiser is controlled using Digrta'E now
familiar tool bars and requesters, and the designers have even
managed to give it some of ihe trendy styling any self- respect-
ing yuppie should expect from their filofax. Thus you can turn
pages by clicking at (heir corners, and sections are subdivided
with colourful tabs sticking oul ai the side.
As well as the diary thai constitutes the largest part of the
package, l here are also sections set aside for your addresses,
tasks and calendar. Most important for novelty, however, is the
supplement section which allows users to 'clip in' things like
conversion tables, dialling codes or even wine and restaurant
lists. Lots of supplements are included with the package, but
you can also use Wordworth to make your own.
So far, though. Organiser has little to recommend it over a
real rilofax. The fact thai users can automatically repeat regular
entries as required - for example their weekly squash game -
and thai alarm chimes have been included does go some way
IO giving Ihe computerised version an erira charm. Portability
problems are only partially overcome, however, by the fact that
Organiser will print pages to fi| in real life filofaxes.
Comparison
Organiser is one of those odd programs thai doesn't really
have a commercial counterpart to square up to. There was
Digila 's Day by Day and a number of PD attempts, but users
wanting a more professionally designed product won't be able
lo find anything better on the Amiga.
Uerdirt
Maintaining the general level of quality lhat is apparent
with the serious software in the bundle, Organiser is
attractive and could hardly be easier to use. WheuV
commercial electronic organiser is worth buy-
ing is rather debatable - after all. Ihe m
attraction of a filofax is that ye
can consult il wherever you may
be. This weakness aside, however. '
Organiser will doubtless prove
valuable as a compliment to the
rest of the Digita software included
in the bundle. (Worth $39.99) fck^
-y ;;s ■-■.-:-: u.
The ultimate yuppie accessory front tho 'SO* now comes
In computerised form .ia pnrf or the Amiga bundle
Amiga Computing
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FEATURE
Pinball mania
Tttr graphics rrctjUrtl). don't
■iha-ai **f Jftr JlG A t htput
Pinball Mania follows on the long line
of pinball' simulations from publishers
21 si Century,
Four tables are available with
a variety of themes from spiders to
law, each with some imaginative
missions. On the table J ail break /for
instance, one of the tasks is to gel the
ball into Sentence Ball-Trap to
sentence a suspect, or you can spell
the word Guard to call the guards and
stop a rial. The second table. Jackpot,
works particularly well with its gam-
bling theme, so contains sub-games
like Roulette or a fruit machine
mission. Kick-Off has a 2-ball multi-
ball feature tor the penally shoot out
mode and finally. Tarantula has all
kinds of mysterious passage ways.
Unfortunately thv ball and iilppmr
mavmrnmnt don't fe*l all that realistic
[pmgarisan
The gam a is AG A only and pretty
close to the commercial version,
although it may have some minor
tweaks made, but as yet it is unclear
what, exactly. Gameplay, tfiough. will
remain the same. II will retail at £29.99.
When compared with other
pinball titles this looks poor. Pinball
Illusions would have been a better
inclusion because it had excellent
graphics and realistic gameplay. II
Amiga Technologies wanted a more
recent pinballer. (hey should have
opted for Obsession because
although Ihis would run on all
Amiqas. it had better graphics.
Uerdict
21st Century have built up a reputalion as publishers of some of the finest pin-
ball sims ever released, so when Amiga Technologies announced they were
including their latest Sim in the bundle, high hopes were raised. Unfortunately,
it soon became apparent that ihis title was nowhere up to the same quality as
its predecessors. This time they have chosen Spktersoft as developers instead
of Digilal Illusions - a tug mistake,
The graphics are unimpressive but this isn't the main problem. It's Ihe playe-
bilily which is totally unrealistic. The ball movement feels sluggish and even
when your flippers are shooling at lull power, they aren't responsive The
missions provide some entertainment but it is not as playable as it should be,
r»TH
The second game in this package is Whizz from Microvalue
Flair. It is an isometric platformer which takes a rather similar
theme to that of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, with the
main character of a rabbit and fantasy-like backgrounds.
The player controls the rabbit who has to move through vari-
ous levels to escape his adversary. Ratty, with a set time limit to
do it in. As well as avoiding certain enemies, there are puzzles
to solve and parts of scenery to interact with to continue the
journey. Bonuses can be collected to raise the
players score and other objects found to replenish energy and
tomparisDn
A criticism levelled at the
commercial version was that it
was too hard, so Flair have
made the game easier and
have also made (he game
controllable via both Ihe
keyboard and the joystick. It
retails at £25.99.
Graphically, tho game look* **f? dat*d
Whizz was released quite a while back and if Amiga
Technologies really felt that a platformer was a necessary inclu-
sion then Aladdin would have been better because graphically it
was outstanding and really did push the A120O's capabilities.
[onriusio
So now you've read up on the various software
titles that come with the new Amiga 1 200 bundle.
We al Amiga Computing think that this has gol lo
be the strongest bundle deal yet (or an Amiga
particularly ii you are buying the hard drive
version which comes with multimedia heavy-
weight Scala. Mosi of the software is either in a
version new to us or has been adjusted to smi
the A 1200, and with a total value of well over
C30G lor ihe standard pack and E500 lor the hard
drive pock including Scala. initial misgivings
about the priOM ol Ihe new Amiga 1200s have to
l;i- mvised
Onc& you've plumbed the depths of the Htes
bundled with Ihe Amiga 1200. you'll be well-
1'iT'i .ir^d for diving into the wider world of Amiga
soli warn out there. Some of the lines you'll read
about m cur magazine and others will require a
more powerful machine than Ihe one Amiga
Technologies supplies as standard, but the
beauty of the Amiga is that, unlike oiher plat-
forms, you don't have to pay for everything at
once. A hard drive, acceteratorcard, monitor and
CD-ROM drive are all fairly essential purchases,
bul ones that can be made over a period of time
The Amiga 1200 is a superb machine and
Amiga Technologies have done an admirable job
of bringing it out in lime for Christmas There
were additions that every Am»ga owner wanted.
but ihey can wait until next year.
INSTALLER WORRIES
What if you can't alford the hard dnve version? What if
you can only just scrape together the cash (or the floppy
only version, but you will be able lo buy a hard drive at
a later dale? Will you have Ihe same problems that
ptagued earty At 200 buyers when it came to installing a
hard drive? The answer, tor Ihe time being, is no,
Amiga Technologies have said to us that all A 1200s
will come with the full six disk installation of Workbench
3.1, Including Ihe hard drive install disk and hard drive
manual addendum However, as Jonathan Anderson
staled, the extra disk and manual are an expense thai
Amiga Technologies might not be willing to continue lo
uphold, so later Amigas may well not come with ihis
disk and manual. However, all is nol lost, you will be
able lo ring Amiga Technologies and they will supply
you with them for a nominal fee
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HARDWARE
t am t often something comes
along which really breaks the
mould, but once in a while it
■wooers Recently, the Zip drive turned the
I drMe market on lis head and now it's
i t*n ot the Reno to do the same tor the
CD-ROM business.
While the rest were busy doubling,
jpling and septupling drive speeds,,
*taefa Vision were employing, a bit ot laiomi
irfcng After some truJy ingenious design
ortc the Reno wag born. At first glance
*su could mistake it for yel another
Uroph of design over content, However,
eser investigation soon reveals there's a
' more to the Reno lhan good looks.
The heart of the unit is, of course, the
D player itself, On the face of it there are
%». if any r surpnses - ihe usual tape deck
wnsport conlrofg, volume dial, headphone
octet, lid Jock and optional external power
JockeL In short, 'ye oWe' mobile CD player.
it take a gulch glance around the back
and a totally new dimension appears.
Courtesy of two guides and a SCSI
zonnection. you can add a detachable
CSl module transforming your portable
CD inlo a portable CD-ROM, Add a link
*om your Amiga via an appropriate SCSI
cable and 'hey presto.' instant CO- ROM or
CO player - battery or mains powered.
On Ihe rear ol the SCSI module sit two
mini 50-pin D-ring SCSI connectors for
nput and pass-thru, separated by a small
:al to select an appropriate unit number -
no nasty dip switches on this little cutie,
The actual SCSI connections are perhaps
!he only sticking points on the Reno.
Buyers guide
Aside from the CD, SCSI module. SCSI
cable, power supply and manuals, the
makers have also thrown a few extra
goodies into the equation in the form
of a rather stylish carrying case, plus
a pair of rather naff headphones. My
advice would be to ditch the head-
phones and invest in a decent pair.
The CD's sound quality is excellent
and the freebies simply don't do the
Reno jus I ice.
During the tests, the unit performed
faultlessly either as a portable or
under mains power. The alter egos of
CO-ROM and CD player appear to Sit
effortlessly together and the ability to
swap roles when required makes it. at
worst, a great money saver.
If speed is important, a dual speed
delivering a perfectly respectable
160ms access may simply not cut
the mustard. However, stack the
innumerable plus points against this
one limitation and you still end up
with a machine which combines
great design, good build quality,
exceptionally flexibility, and an
unbelievable price within a true
innovation.
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Although perfectly functional they are in
the new SCSI II style - as opposed to the
traditional 25-pin or large 50-pin
Centronics connectors.
In the Reno's defence it does come with
a cable which Jinks the new style plug to
a traditional 25-pin SCSI - this being Ihe
external standard for most Amiga SCSI
controllers. Only SCSI II conlrollers use
the mini 50 D-ring as standard. The
cable is fine if you're connecting ihe
Feno direct to the machine but if you're
planning to use u wilh either a Squirrel or
perhaps at the end of a SCSI chain you II
need ai least one adoiiional bit of kit.
GENDER BENDING
Assuming you're going to add the Reno
at the end of the chain you'll need what's
known as a gender bender. Basically, this is
a small dongle which enables you to con-
nect a traditional 50-pin Centronics to the
Reno's mini 50-prn D-nng. Alternatively, you
could use the same gender bender and
add ihe Reno in at the beginning of the
SCSI chain, with its accompanying cable
making the initial connection 10 Ihe
'machine. Whichever way you choose,
there's still the small matter ol £20 lo be
added (o the bill fur the all important gen-
der bender,
Portability, in relation lo ihe Amiga, isn't
an issue, unless you have some weird
idea about trundling your Amiga about in a
wheel barrow accompanied by a couple of
car batteries. The portability issue does
have wider implications if you re forced to
use a PC or Mac for compuling on the
move and the Reno will be equally at
home on both platforms.
In addition to Ihe Ami-CD-ROM software,
the Reno also Ships wilh software tor both
the PC and Mac So. whether you're on
the road or at home wilh your Amiga, the
Reno is ideal. Not surprisingly, both the
CD and its accompanying SCSI module
boast battery compartments if mains
power isn't an option. y£7*F
isitaffl-flom, is ltd ■
W p/aw, is it a bargain? ^
Paul ffustin has ail the
answers when it comes to the
Bens portable fff
SVSTEfn ESHEnTIHLS
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SCSI controller
The bottom line
Product: Reno Portable CD-Rom
Supplier: First Computer Centre
Tel: Of 13 2319057
Price: £129.99
Ease of use
Implementation -
Value for money
Overall __
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-10
Amiga Computing
DECEMBER 1995
i
F E A T U H E
*Q
ohn Loader doesn't have
much time tor journalisis. As
chief investigator tor ELSPA's
crime unit, he realises that a certain
amount of public relations work is
required, but you get the feeiing his
heart's not really in it.
When interviewed at the ECT£>
Loader was polite, but he gave Ihe
impression it was a bit of a chore. In
contrast to all the PR people chattering
away throughout Olympia thai day.
Loader exhibited no interest in making
over-inflated claims for his organisation.
A down-to-earth man with 30 years
experience in the police force behind
him, he seemed oddly out of place in
the hrjl flir Environment that constitutes
the European Trade Show.
His comments on the extent ol th(j
problem lacing the industry, however,
are as revealing as they are brief.
According to ELSPA's figures published
in May 1995, the game industry loses
$2.7 billion a year, while the business
software community loses an astound-
ing $7.8 billion to fraud. Loader admits
even that estimate might be conserva-
tive, however - Nintendo US boss
Howard Lincoln claimed $5 billion was
lost every year by the games industry
alone.
Given Ihese figures. Loader has lo
be realistic about what ELSPA's crime
unit can achieve, "On a target by target
basis we've had almost 100 per cent
.John Loader, m*-pottccman.
now trending the C.LSPA
L-riftte unif
success," he remarked. "But the limited
resources mean we're not going to solve
\he problem.'
Limited resources indeed - the words
crime unit might sound rather grand
when you realise Us comprised of jusl
John Loader and his assistant investiga-
tor Karen Batlin. This has not stopped
them from bugling some of the mOSl
serious counterfeiting operations in Ihe
country.
Since its inception in April 1904, the
crime unit has uncovered criminal soft-
ware theft conspiracy, illegal Bulletin
Board operators arid even the seizing of
illegal software at car boot sales. With
such a broad range ol criminal activity to
cover, Loader's team Found that just
seizing illegal software at ihe point of
raij— ——__ sale was not
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comes from employees within compa
nies with dubious operations as well as
from customers that receive suspicious
goods
Investigators will sometimes make
lest purchases to prove counterfeited
software is being sold, bul in the case of
ihe larger criminal operations, Loader's
team has worked closely with the police,
obtaining search warrants and accom-
panying I hem on raids to collect the evi-
dence required to bring the pirates to
justice.
Given the importance of working
closely with the police and the trading
standards authorities. Loader's experi-
Software piracy is on the increase, costing the industry billions -
each year. Since its establishment in 193% howeuer. ttSPR's —
crime unit has been fighting back Qareth lofthouse reports -
Making pirated CDt i* "ul
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FEATURE
^*** Amiga owners take the problem of piracy par-
Jctfsrty seriously. The music business has been
naming that illegal copying is killing off music, but
r*s has never done anything: to stop people (aping
COS, and Ihe same attitude applies lo software.
Tedious sermonising is not Amiga Computings
style but you might be interested in how these
enmes affect you as an end user. It is wall known
tfiat the Amiga has suffered particularly at the
^ards of biackmaritet traders, and this has led to
Higher prices and nervousness In the industry
about developing For the platform
Take DMA Design, for example-. Makers of the
phenomenally successful Lemmings, DMA sul-
fated so much from piracy ii was the major reason
far their subsequent abandonment of the Amiga,
Simon Litlle, Lemming's designer and now devel-
opment manager for Gametek, commented "1 don't
k there were many Amiga owners that didn't
have a copy, and a high percentage of those were
pirated." Worse, he points out, the more popular a
z.*ogram is the more people will want to crack it.
face and understanding of police proce-
dure is vital. However, the crime unit will
jnderlake private prosecutions on
oehaH of its members when the police
*on't take certain cases to court.
Many in the games industry had
■■■d that the transition to CD-ROM as
*^e main software formal would help to
reduce piracy, but Loader quickly puts
pay to that theory, "It's as easy to copy
software now as it ever was," he states.
'You just have lo spend £5000 on a
decent computer, tapestreamer and a
CD writer. Then you just need the gold
discs, which cost as little as £5 each
* hen bought in bulk."
Nor does he think it's likely that
advancements in the technology of pira-
cy protection will solve Ihe problem in
ihe foreseeable future. From the outsel
Burnt fingers
Piracy in the music and games industries are bolh
similar problems, but Ihe comparison sometimes
conceals some important differences. For example.
Little believes Ihe selling of bootleg copies in car-
boot salts and markets is more common with
games. Music CDs cost £13 whereas games cost
£30. so obviously the bootlegger can make much
more of a profit out of the latter, The difference
between a music CDs price and a gold disc is not
so rewarding,
Given how widespread Ihis activity now is, are
ELSPA doing enough to fight the problem?
"Well it's one of those things where you can
never do enough," Little says. He pointed out
thai progress will be slow, since getting as far
as a prosecution for illegal copying takes months,
Unlike with Ihe music business, where Ihe tran-
sition lo CD has probably encouraged more home
illegal duplication (hanks to its superior sound
quality, Ihe game indusiry's move to CD could radi-
cally reduce ihe amount of casual copying of
games by individuals.
Simon doubts, however, that it will have any such
benefits as far as the commercial and industrial
pirates go. As he knows from his own experience
with another game called Journeyman, the profes-
sionals can manufacture high quality, convincing
copies of everything from a game's CD to its pack-
aging and artwork, and then go on to flood whole
markeis in the Far East with their illegal versions
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iuCfimi/ui, but DMA tart out
big lime thanks to piracy
'On a larger by target basis we'ue
liar] almost 1SD w cent mm.
M the limited resDiiniis mem ujete it going to
solue the problem'
John Loader
of video gaming, developers have
sought to outsmart the code crackers
wilh a whole range ol tricks, all to no
avail Loader is equally non-plussed by
the latest efforts by companies like
Nimbus and Disk Express, staling.
"We've yet to see anything that
works in practice. It seems I hat if
you can make if, someone else can
break it." In fact, as is the case with
hackers obsessed with breaking into the
most protected computer systems in the
world, there is a whole community of
crackers who enjoy Ihe challenge of
overcoming the latest protection sys-
tems.
Loader was actually approached by
such a crew whife at the show, and l hey
asked him if he thought they were the
villains. "Maybe not," he responded, "but
they provide the tools I hat rnake/^tf
ihe crime possible."
(racked conspiracies
In its shod history the ELSPA crime unit has success-
fully uncovered several major criminal conspiracies.
each of which show how easy it is for individuals to
make pirate copies of software without spending a tor-
lune on equipment.
In true Cnmewatch tradition, the piracy underworld
has its own characters that crop up again and again.
One such person is Trevor Bell, a redundant British
Rail Signaller known throughout the international
pirate BBS network by his handle of 'Hot Tuna."
Bell was selling pirated versions of major software
titles when he had the misfortune of being
approached by John Loader acting as a customer. He
offered Loader a CD containing; £30,000 worth of
Nintendo games, all for the price of £28. Bell also had
CDs apparently containing every current game and
business program available for the PC, which he was
selling for the same price. He was duly prosecuted
and sentenced lo 200 hours community service with a
warning (hal failure to carry it out could resull in a
prison sentence.
Thai was back in May this year. Bell obviously
found his previous line of work too rewarding lo aban-
don, however, because by August the ELSPA crime
unN had fresh information about the 24-year old man's
activities. This led to a raid on 3t August when
Loader, trading standards officers, and members of
West Mercia CID. uncovered illegal property in hous-
es In Redditch and Kidderminster. Bell was at the
Kidderminster address at the lime of the raid.
As well as discovering two ROM writing machines
and iwo DAT tapestreamers, they also uncovered a
library of over 200 gold CDs, including one containing
Windows 95. A number of copied CDs were already
boxed and set for shipment, including Windows 95,
ihe BT phone disk and lots more Nintendo and PC
software. These finds, combined with illegal products
discovered at a separate bust made in Yorkshire,
meant the crime unit had uncovered millions of
pounds worth of pirated gold CDs in that month abne.
Funnily enough, while carrying out (he
Kidderminster raid they also found a number of items
identified as coming from a recent burglary at the
ELSPA offices.
Another colourful character, Nicolas Vivaldi, made
a rather feeble attempt lo escape conviction when he
was charged with four offences of Copyright Iheft in
July. Pleading noi guilty lo any of Ihe offences, Vivaldi
went on lo accuse John: Loader of planting a total ol
41 counterfeit CDs on him and of altering letters to
accomplices found on the suspect's computer.
Not surprisingly the Magistrate dismissed these
allegations and ruled that ELSPA's Crime Unit had
acted correctly and uncovered clear evidence of his
dealings in copied software, Loader later estimated
the total value of the software in Vivaldi's possession
at over one million pounds - none of which was paid
for.
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has always been a bit Of a trial on
the Amiga. What do you do when the
computer you are working on can create 24-
bit, 16 million colour graphics, but you can
only print In 16 shades of grey? You should
buy yourself a new colour printer, of course.
What about it you are really into DTP but
you only have an old 9-pin dot matrix printer?
You buy a black and white laser or inkjel.
Surely those kinds of printers arc way too
expensive and designed for other types of
computer? Well yes and no. It's true that in
the current climate, with the Amiga attempting
to hurl itself back onto the market, very few
printer manufacturers are directly supporting
Amiga computers. Even Wolf Faust, designer
of the excellent Studio II, has no plans to
support certain new kinds of printers.
(Studio II is a program thai has a number of
different printer drivers for Amiga, and subtle
ways of controlling them.)
What is worse is that some of the sexiest
printers going around at the moment are
actively non-Amiga, pro-PC Some use
Windows {spit) to do all the sorting out of
the print, so the printer becomes just a
dumb terminal on the end of the computer's
processor. It would be extremely difficult to
emulate this kind of printer on an Amiga
unless someone wanted to spend a lot
of time reverse engineering the
technology. This is, sadly, not
something anyone seems prepared
to do el the moment.
Its not all black, as there ar*
some folks who still distribute
drivers for the printers they sell, and
some printer manufacturers are still
supporting the Amiga in some way.
What kind of printer do you need?
Well, if your needs are exclusively text *
based, then a simple 24-pin dot matrix
tiau Ha the answer. They are inexpensive,
-O run, and print on any
kind of paper. The colour
stons are very clever
and give you
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Phil South tests same of the
printers auailabie for your Rmiga in the
ft-m AftjW and laser (dtegsrie.
provided, of course, you have access
lofeome kind ofUmiga printer driver that
supports the fulfVange of colours.
Twcnly-four-pirt printers are superior to 9-
pin Winters in tHpt they deliver full letter
qualW text for correspondence and writing
the oreat British novel. They also deliver
quiteviigh resolution graphics output,
especially in colour, when the K , \~
amount of dots yo 1 '
have \q(\
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the page is compensated for by the
blending together of dots ot different
colours. .
They also print a lot of -J
dots on the page; very
close together, which
givps you very dense
print. This is something '
you need if you wani
your colour prints to
stand out and be ■
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produce a slightly fluffy image due to the
"talkjns of the technology. That is to say.
ityle typewriter technology - a hammer
ting paper through an inked ribbon.
An Inkjet wilt be worth considering If you
work with Desk I op Publishing and graphics.
Inkjet 5 are almost like laser printers, except
" print on the paper is water soluble ink,
it fingers wilt smudge the print, like the
s from a fountain pen. Compared to
^aser printers, Inkjets are cheap and produce
comparable images on the page, Colour
inkjets are better for colour work because*
they don't blend the colours or make the
ribbon muddy, as happens In a dot matrix
machine. The colour prints are always
■strong and saturated, although because the
■nk is wet when it nits the paper, you will
produce the best results with specially coated
mkjet paper. This is different to the usual
70 gram copier paper w%, all lend
to use in our printers by dolault
For a happy medium between
laser printers and cot matrix
machines, inkjets represent the
best value for money.
At the top end of
the scale we have the
LED page printers and laser printers, True
laser printers are hard to come by cheaply,
although these days you can pick up a non-
Postscript laser for about £400, The cheaper
lasers are actually LED printers, which use
the same Xerox hot drum technology and
toner cartridges, but use an LED light
source Instead of a laser. The quality is
comparable and the print does not come off
on your fingers.
To give you a feeling for what kinds of
machines are out there, we have assembled
some likely suspects from Citizen, Canon
and Oki. These take us on a short Journey
through all the different types of printer and
give you some idea what to look for in a
printer for your Amiga. We also give you a
few other options at the end. but you're
going to have to wait until then to find out
what they are.
Okay, here it is. Fire up the inkjets; Igor,
let's breathe some lite inio these graphics-..
[itieen Projet Ik
Price: £279
Supplier: Citizen (01753*212380
This is an odd looking little printer. It looks
mors like a friendly little robot than an
inkjet printer. But hey. who am I to go name
calling? The sheet feeder is in the back of
the machine, a little slot into which you
shove a little wad of paper. There is also a
slot in the front for you to insert single
sheets if that's your fancy.
The print quality is excellent, and the
colours are clear and true. The single
downside is that the ProJet uses an all-in
ane cartridge, and although you can
ange this easily for a black one when
you're printing off reams of black ink-only
letters, it's a bit of a fag to have to do that
I every time. Vou can. of course, just print
out the odd letter in black from the cart, but
this will run down the black faster than the
other colours and might not be such a
good idea.
Although there really is nothing wrong
with this printer, I thought the design was a
bit naff, and for Citizen, whose quality of
workmanship I can rarely faujl, the build
quality was a oil plaslicky. Although this is
not really a major criticism. I don't think I
would like lo have something like this on my
desk. It's quiet, it delivers the right sort of
print quality, but I just dent like the look of it.
i As inkjets go It's pretty good though, and
^jprice is right - although I couldn't help
Itjng that it was only a short hop to the
anon B J 4000c price. That said, if this Is
your price and you can go no higher without
selling a family heirloom, then go for it. Vou
won't get better at this price. *
Driver: Citizen Projet lie
Page Speed: 1 20
characters per second
Built-in Fonts: 3
Downloadable fonts: none
DPI: 300
Sheet feeder: yes
Print quality: good
Amiga Computing
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ROUND-UP
[anon BJ-200bh
Price: £228.99
Supplier; Canon 01 B1 -773-6000
This is a dreamy printer with so much
going for it its hard to know where to
start. Firstly, If 5 a small top loading
unit which folds up when not being
used like the Canon BJ-200ex, which
means it takes up less space on your
desk than most other colour printers.
Secondly, it has gorgeous colour and
deeply saturated prints which sing oh"
the page. Thirdly, it Is very affordable,
considering the cost of colour printers
In the past.
Although you get the best results
using the special coated Inkjet paper,
you still get very credible results from
the machine using simple copier
paper. You can use the Canon to create
colour artwork and originals for
commercial printing, although it is, of
course, preferable to create colour
separations if you're eerlous about
that, and you only need a monochrome
machine if you want to do that.
The best reason to buy this machine
over any other one Is the Ink cartridge.
Yes that little black thing inside. It has
two separate wells for colour inks and
mono, so if you do a lot of mono work
you can just replace the black cartridge.
In machines which feature an all-in-one
cartridge, you have to switch cartridges
Iand use a black-only cartridge for
your mono work and switch back for
colour and black.
If you need a colour printer then this
is your man, simply because it looks
so cool on the desk and has Amiga
print drivers.
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Page speed: appro*
pages per minute
Built-in fonts: 5
Downloadable fonts: none
DPI: 360
Sheet feeder: 100 sheets
Print quality: excellent
Of the mono inkjets available, the Canon represent the cream of the crop. The only possrt*
contenders for i* crown are Ihe Hewlett Packard Deskjet family of pnrt.ri
and on the lop end, the nice Oki LED page pnnters. Although
these are more expensive, they are certainly pushing mtc
inkjel territory.
The BJ-20Oex is a compact and powerful monocvi-
inkjet printer which sits upright on your desk, noi unlike
its predecessors, the BJ-10 and BJ-20 printers. M
Standing up on end wilh a sheet feeder on the back
was an option on the 10 and 20, With (his printer (and
,ndeed all new Bubble Jets) it's the only way to operate
ihe machine. The sheet feeder, which was a £60 add-on
in me previous versions, is moulded into the back of the
unit and the paper goes in the top and shoots ou« of the
front. This top-loading scheme means the footprint of tha
machine is small, in Iheory at least,
In practice, the paper has to go somewhere when it
^ comes out of the front of the unit. This means that the little
plastic stop has to be pulled out of the front of the machine
to the full lenglh of a piece of A4 paper.
Although you still have somewhere to
rest your coffee when you are nol actually printing anything, when you print you
have to move it and pull out the stop to caich the paper. „,.,,
The controls are all on top of the machine, and as such are easy to
access, All the functions of the printer are available from Ibese buttons. Canon
have ditched the dodgy slider power switch lor a nice posrtrve clickable button r
One quibble I oo have about the arrangement of Ihe buttons on the top of
the machine is that for the first few days I had the machine, I was constantly
pushing the power button when I meant to put ihe printer on-line, because
the buttons are right nexl lo each other,
The other buttons give you a Line Feed/Form Feed, and sw.tch the
computer from high speed to high quality. Obviously, there is a trade off
between speed and quality. The faster the paper comes out of the slol
the less quality the printer will have time to put into the print.
Driver: Canon BJZQOex
Page speed: appro*.
3 pages per minute
Built-in fonts: G
Downloadable fonts: none
DPI: 360
Sheet feeder: 100 sheets
Print quality; good
and really makes you
feel like a professional when you run off a wad of pages and they all come
out crisply printed from ihe top of the machine. Lasers are the top end of
the printer spectrum, although the lower priced machines are starting to
chip away at inkjet territory.
Although you might have had experience wrth mkjets and dot matrix
printers before, using a printer with a toner cartridge is a big step. You
turn mlo something of a loner cartndge expert very quickly, and perhaps
as a side benefit you could land a joh as a photocopier engineer, Toner
carts are certainly a belter bet for refilling because ihe toner >s pretty
much the same quality and darkness as the original substance. If
you're spending £200-300 on an inkjet, it might be worth
considering the Oki range.
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Oki SluGH
Price: £799
Supplier: Oki Systems 01753 81 9B1 9
This is a pearl of a printer and really does bnng home to
you how much belter the quality of print is from a laser.
This is, In fact, an LED printer, but the loner cartridge
and effect you gel are the same you would get from a
laser. For DTP work, if you want to produce camera-
ready art from your DTP program on paper, this is the
best ol the bunch. It is a little pricey al £799, but does
the job very well and is very compact lor a laser. The
cheaper models, the OL4G0ex and OL4i0ex, are still
on sale at £399 and £499 respectively, although these
will soon be usurped by the new OLSOOex and
OL6i0ex as of Ociober this
year
The print quality from
this printer is fantastic ■
:
Driver; HP LaserJet 4
Page speed; 8 pages
per minute
(14 seconds first page}
Built-in fonts: 45
Downloadable fonts: PCMCIA
card slot
DPI: 000
Sheet feeder: 250 sheets
Print quality: excellent
ROUND-UP
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Price: £149
Supplier: Citizen 01753 212380
Studio Pro II
The ABC is a new easy-to-use doi
matrix printer which has colour options
and a range of state-of-the-art features.
I am unsure about how long 24-pin
printers can continue to survive in a
market that has so many new and
cheap Inkjet printers. How far can the
technology develop before printer
makers give it up as old technology' 7
In any event, this is an excellent 24-
pin printer and is astound mgly quiet
due to a unique construction which
practically seals the whole unit, except
for a little slot al the top lo pop your
paper inlo- The print quality is good and
lacks much of the banding associated
with dot matrix printers. This is with a
new nbbon and I suspect this might not
still be the case when the nbbon starts
to flag, (Note: The test machine had a
ribbon m the machine for shipping and
during this lest I used it to sea whal a
dried up ribbon looked like. It actually
performed quite well, with a little banding
and greying around the edge, but it was
no way as bad as I thought it would be.)
The colour is pleasantly dense and
the custom print drivers for the Amiga
make this a lot better. You often can't
get drfve printers to deliver the correct
density, but Citizen have always been
firm supporters of the Amiga. The unit
comes with a disk containing the fast
start software, which sets up the printer
for you. Simply click on the disk icon,
click on the ABC icon, and you're
away.
The printer uses the Citizen Print
Manager software, which allows you to
adjust the print settings for gamma
correction and colour saturation etc.
meaning you can get truly sparkling
colour prints. On the down side, you
have to ensure that you don't prinl too
dense all the time because the pnnter
ribbon starts to get a litlie muddy. The
only quibble I had with it was the little
bit of wire which pokes up to rest the
paper on when it goes in and comes
out of the printer. I kepi catching my
sleeve on it as I walked around my
desk and it kept pinging off. I suppose I
should just be more careful, right? But
also, I think the wire could either be
replaced by a plaslic Strip Or be more
firmly attached lo the printer.
Top marks for ease of use, and on
price it's hard to beat - unless you
start shopping around for inkjets and
dig a little deeper in the old pocket,
that is, If 24-pin is as high as you can
go, this is about the best you can get
at the moment, especially if you're not
loo sharp about how to set up a pnnter
on the Amiga, It's alt done for you by
the disk you get with it. so there's
nothing to worry about, except where
are you going to store all the bits of
paper you run off it?
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Driver: Citizen ABC 24
Page Speed: 64
characters per second
Built-in fonts: 5 LQ fonts
2 scaieabie
Downloadable fonts.: none
DPI: 360
Sheet feeder: none
Print quality: fair
A
This program gives you print drivers which can provide better
control over your printer, even if you already have a pnnter driver
from the manufacturer. Some printers have problems with Amiga
computers, mainly because the drivers are not really researched
fully before release, and all Amiga programs are net tested on
the system.
Certain problems have developed over the years with Hewlett
Packard and Canon inkjets, for example, which sometimes do
not print the image squarely on tho page, as you would wish,
This doesn't seem to happen all the time, otherwise (he problem
would be fixed by now. Bui the Studio Pro II program gives you
almost unlimited control over the finished output.
The program also has 24-bit drivers so that you circumvent the
16 shades of grey limit on Amiga printers.
I had a lot of fun with these printers,
and the best of the bunch has to be
the Canon BJ200ex. Although it
doesn't feature colour it does have
the right balance of price against
performance. II is also the machine
which installs easily into a lot of dif-
ferent computers without any
tedious setting up. I have two
Amigas and a PC here and the
machine is capable of switching
between all three machines (once
the drivers are installed) without
any complaints.
The print quality is very good,
especially with a full Canon Ink car-
tridge. I generally refill my car-
tridges, and although you get good
value that way, the refill inks tend to
be a little thinner. It also works bet-
ter on higher grades of paper, and
although it might seem economic to
save money of cheaper pulpier
paper, it's a false economy because
the prinl quality goes down the
more Ihe ink seeps into the paper.
This goes for all the printers I tried
really. Higher grade paper gives you
better print, full stop.
If you can spend a bit more
money I'd go for the Oki 6C0ex when
it comes out, or if colour is specifi-
cally what you wanted I'd go for the
Canon BJ40D0C.
Other printers you should really
look at are the Ricoh LP1200 Laser,
priced at £499 from Silica. Not only
does it coma with Printer drivers for
an Amiga, but it does Six pages per
minute and is a genuine laser print-
er. Other options are the Seikosha
range, which for some reason
mimics the Citizen range in casing
design and price, and the Hewlett
Packard inkjets, which Hf^ just as
good value as the Canon range and
about the same in print quality.
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o, Final Writer Release 4 is
upon us. From its lowly start
as PenPal everyone's favourite
)fd processor {at least compared lo
iWords). it has risen through the
■ s. via Final Copy, to its current sta-
Final Writer is Word to
tfordworth's WordPerfect, The compe-
-*on between the two titles drives I hem'
-• on to gam that extra chunk of
-"whet share, which can only be good
tor us, the users. With more features
: ess cost than ever, Final Writer is
salty starting to shape up as a
acement for my text editor and
3 age Stream.
So what has been added then' 5 Welt,
'ere must have been some pretty
severe changes iniernally lo make the
^*ecutabie's size jump from a manage-
able 600k to a gargantuan 990k,
•xrtwith standi rig the cute labs lor page
and section markers,
PROPER GRAMMAR
Well, for a start, there's the grammar
checker. Previously sold separately,
Softwood's Proper Grammar didn't
make much ol an impression on
reviewers, but incorporated into the
main body of Final Writer you can but
admire Softwood's commitment to
providing good quality software at very
reasonable prices,
Qui has Final Wnler reached the
pinnacle of development? Is it a perfect
word processor? Hardly, There are a
tew problems with this otherwise splen-
did package that need to be addressed
oetore I would consider replacing my
copy of PageStream and Turboiext
with it.
For a start, although quick compared
so Wordworlh, Final Writer is hardly a
speed demon, especially when used on
a graphics card like the Picasso. The
screen refresh rate isn't particularly
ouer
Final Writer? Pdk Ben Host reckons
they'll go on for a while yet
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those click tabs
or you'll summit
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scrolling
through yaOT
document
impressive when used in a large num-
ber of colours, although it does become
a lol more acceptable when using rela-
tively few. say four or eight colours.
Next up is the lack of sysiem friendli-
ness. By (his, l mean you can'l change
the Avant Garde lypeface thai is used
for Final Writer's interface and there are
various utilities that won't work with
Final Writer that people like to run. For
instance. 1 had no luck getting Magic
FancM a tab?
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Windows square .and baring? Bit like Windows Itmolt. I guess
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users of MUl where l hey have been in use for the
past year as a replacement for cycle gadgets. The
tabs allow easy access to olher sections or pages of a
document, and facilitate much smaller preferences
requesters because every other section of ihe prefer-
ences can be hidden behind the one currently in use-
Click labs are anoiher example of user inierface
designers irying lo make computer usage as fnendly
as possible, while at the same time making things
easier lor ihemselves, particularly in terms of space-
Users of standard Hi -res screen modes should be
aware lhat using the click tabs on document windows
does leave very little room for the document itself,
which rather detracts from iheir usefulness.
As an aside, it may just be possible that Softwood
didn't add the click lab feature in response to a share-
ware product like MUI, but rather a larger concern
Windows 95. Windows 95 makes extensive use of the
dick lab feature, particularly m its preference settings.
Menu lo run. having to temporarily turn
it off while using Final Writer.
More annoymgly, I couldn't replace 1
the rather spartan requester that Final
Writer is furnished with wilh a FteqTools
or Magic File Requester requester
which meant that deleting files, renam-
ing them or creating new directories
had to be done outside the file
requester or the program [there is a
delete file function on Final Writer's
toolbar),
TOO MANY SIZES
Other ilems on my list of complaints
include ihe fact lhat the font size popup
on the main window lists every poim
size between 4 to 300 points, rather
than going for the more common 12.
14, 16. IS, 24, 36, 48, 72-style list, This
makes the popup very slow for convert-
ing text from very small to very big
sizes, meaning you have to resort to the
main type preferences window,
Perhaps I'm alone in this, but nol oniy
would I occasionally like to see charac-
ters like spaces, tabs and returns, but I
would also like the ability to find and
replace them. This function is particu-
larly useful when importing ASCII text
files lo make them flow according lo the
paragraph settings you have in Final
Writer.
Final Writer gets around ihis by offer-
ing special import options in ihe project
preferences, which gets around that
problem, but it is still very useful to be
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Roof Writer? Par?, Bert Voet reckons they'll go on for a while yet
It ain't over yet
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Sd. Fiiiul Writer Release 4 is
upon us. From Ms lowly slorl os
PenPal everyone s tavourili:
word processor (al leost cpm-
p gred lo Kind Word 5) , it tia & rise
through He forks, via Final
Copy, toils current status. Final
Writer i£ Word lo wordwortti's
WordPerfect. Trie tompolilion
between tie two lilies drives
them bum on 10 gain Ihol exlra
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able lo remove or replace such formal-
ting codes once- a file has been loaded.
One of the nice tea lures of Final Writer
is its abilily to save $creen preferences
with documents, thus bringing the docu-
ments back exactly as you (eft them.
This can be particularly handy when it
comes to using templates, say for
labels- You can set up an A4 page, but
you won't need all the clutter or click
labs and button bars - all you need to
see is that Ihe text is flowing nicely into
the labels, The same thing applies if
you have a template for a birthday card.
An A4 landscape page with Ihe drawing
tools al the ready and some fancy fonts
lo liven it up. Perfect.
The problems I have pointed, out aren't
to suggest thai Final Writer is not a fine
program. It is. All I'm doing is pointing out
some potential problems that could have
been trapped by now. If this was a first
final Writttf premrnfs o
damn intvrf *£v In Ihe
public. Nolle* th* click
tab* *l th* top and
bottom of Mia document
window. These allow
easy icctu to otttt*
parts ot (h# document
release of the program I could happily sit
back and say. "Look at the superb graph-
ics manipulation commands, the way
Final Writer works with EPS fonts and cli-
part (arid Ihe sheer amount of them thai
are supplied wilh the program), the style
tags, sections, index and table of
contents generation, etc."
But il is the fourth. I always feel that
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features, and existing ones should be
further honed. Directory Opus is a
fine example of this - a stunning new
paradigm in directory management, but
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The final word
In conclusion then, Final Writer Release 4 is a great piece of
software. Softwood have done an admirable job on it and its
completely revamped manual, and have given a low-cost
upgrade path from any previous version, so no user should be
without it. Touches like the click labs prove that Softwood are
keeping iheir ideas up-to-date, following the example of MUI
and Windows 95, and the lact that the grammar checker is now
incorporated into Final Writer means that the value for money
that this package provides is second to none.
Be aware though that the program now takes up a minimum
of 5Mb of hard drive space {and only works from hard drive)
and really nueds something a bit more powerful than a 68000-
based machine for optimum use. along wilh at least 3Mb
installed on your machine
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Product: Final Writer Release 4
Supplier: Gordon Harwoods
Price: £74.95 (upgrade is
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Tel: 01773 836781
Ease of use
Implementation
Value for money.
Overall ^^_^__
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Grammar? Granpal
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So how does the grammar checker
tn Final Writer work then? Well,
unlike the spell checker which just
has to look at each word in turn
(checking for hyphenation} and
compare it to the entries it has in
Its dictionaries, the grammar
checker has to actually parse each
sentence.
The term parsing was first used
in computer terms tor high-end
speech recognition programs (and
grammar checkers), but it became
familiar to players of computer
games back in the bad old days of
text-only adventures. Who can
forget the Scott Adams series, or
the Infocom adventures? Welt, it
seems most people have, happier
now to deal with gtossy graphics
digress.
Back In intercom's heyday, a sen-
tence parser was limited to a sim-
ple two-word entry - gel fork, go
north, etc. - and thai was easy, but
as time moved on, game players
demanded greater complexity, so
multi-word parser were developed
for adventure games. Sentences
like Put the pal plant into the plant
pot', were bandied about as exam-
ples ot the cleverness of the games
companies parsers. These develop-
ments were aided by more serious
companies' efforts lo bound the
rules of English, a difficult
language to gel to grips with
grammatically.
ADVENTUROUS
Anyway, the grammar checker in
Final Writer works in a similar way ,
to those text advenlures, tt looks
tor the boundaries of a sentence
(usually, but not exclusively, a lull
stop and a capital letter) and then
proceeds to take Ihe sentence
a pan bit by bit to find the subject,
predicate and object - essential
parts of a sentence, ft it can't find
I one or more of those things, it will
check a set of rules that allow for
such exceptions, and if it doesn't
match one of those rules it will
bring up a message.
A good grammar checker will
also look for things like the passive
mood {'The ball was thrown by the
boy' as opposed to The boy threw
the ball") which can lead to confu-
sion. This is obviously a gross sim-
plification of all the steps the gram-
mar checker has to go through just
to give you its necessarily picky
review of your writing, but at least
it gives you some idea of the
complexity behind the process.
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in hand, eyes glazed over and mouths
drooling at the prospect of their new
software purchase. Are I hey waiting lor
Some Tuesday? or Sega Salurnday?
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ing system Windows§5, lo be precise.
With a lol less fanfare, Apple
launched System 7.5.1 in March of this
year. It wasn't a major update, it merely
added additional flexibility, but il is the
current (as 1 write this piece) version of
the Macintosh's operating system.
Workoench 3,1 has been around lor
well over a year now. Licensed Irom
Commodore before ihey went bus! by
Village Tronic, this will be the operating
system most lamiliar to our readership.
But which one is the best?
uitfem 7.5.1
System 7.5.1 (System7 from now on) is
the operating system for all Macintosh-
compatible computers. It comes on a
CD-ROM or eighl high density floppy
disks, taking roughly ten minutes for a full
install from CD. Once installed, System7
presents a very friendly face to Ihe novice
user, with an almost patronising attitude to
mere humans at times.
As an example, should the machine
crash or you switch it off without going
through ihe shutdown process, when you
next boot up a window will appear saying
that you should use the shutdown menu
item next time. Fine - if it was your fault
then you can accept thai, but. most of the
time it was because the machine
crashed, not you!
System7 also shares Windows' feature'
of using the same screen for all open
applications, with windows overlaying
windows overlaying windows. This can
result in a confusing display, particularly if
you are using a standard resolution
monitor (which is smaller than PAL:HiRes
Lace). Unlike the Amiga's depth gadget.
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ing the user to jump straight to dirfer^nl
applications or hide them lo clear the
screen up a bit.
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Let's start at home with Workbench before moving on to
more exotic climes. Everybody should be familiar with
the six disk install set consisting of Worttbench, Extras,
Fonts, Storage, Locale and Install. The whole process
takes about five minutes provided you already have a
suitable hard drive partition set up. Workbench 3-1 also
comes with a Kickstart ROM which needs inserting in
place of your current Kickstart chip, Ihis obviously
increases the time needed for an installation but the
amount depends on how accessible the Kickstart chip is
in your machine.
Of the three operating systems on review here.
Workbench is by far the smallest. 1 1 doesn't even come
with a game (by way of contrast, Windows comes with
one game on (he CD, a patience game, minesweepers
and further games on the Plus Pack CD, System 7
comes with a number sliding puiile and a jigsaw, and
there's also a demo version of a patience game on the
CD version of the OS). More important, though, is the
fact that Workbench comes with very little by way of
additional utilities. This is because Workbench has
always been geared towards a floppy-based machine
Hopefully, this will change now that we have Amiga
Technologies ai the helm - proper CD-ROM software,
built-in support for networKmg and Ihe Internet, improved
printer and colour support are all needed in a modern
operating system, none ol them are incorporated into
Workbench.
Some o! the functionality of the other two OSs could
be implemented too. Copying files is a good example.
On both Windows 95 and System 7, when you copy one
or several files, you gel a progress meter showing how
many files remain lo be copied. On Workbench you just
end up with the sleepy pointer and no way to cancel a
long operation. Sure, unlike Ihe other machines, you can
continue to use Ihe other programs you have running at
modus operandi
often you end up waiting for an operation
to end before yc-u can do something else.
Again, formatting floppy disks is a good
example. Under Workbench you could be
formatting four floppy disks and slill be
able to continue doing anything you like
lhat doesn't involve floppy drive access.
System 7's method of determining what
to do with a file is based on whal appftca-
tion created the file in the first place, Ihe
information being contained in the file's
aeon. This means you can simply double-
click on any file and its. creator program
will load and load the file.
Other features of Sytem7 that are
shared by Workbench include RAM disks
and drag and drop. The former is not
dynamic and has to be set in advance.
chewing up vital RAM and the latter still
isn't supported in any real way.
Requirements
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Processor:
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68000
6Mb
8Mb
66040
20Mb
Implementation .
Ease of use
Overall
_7
_7
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Comment: Most work is actually done
by She operating system which means
you end up with highly compatible
software and the networking support >$
excellent and simple to achieve, but
Sy$tem7 really does need batter
multitasking.
Windows 95
Wall, what can you say about the
world's mosi popular operating syslem?
'It sure is big', would probably be my
first comment Windows 95 fakes about
45 minutes lo msiall depending on what
hardware and software you already
have installed on your machine. The
optional Plus Pack will bump that figure
up by about half an hour.
The software of choice for
businesses the world over has all you
would expect from a modern operating
system except, perhaps, friendliness
and a little bit of soul - if that's not an
oxymoron. The metallic greys that
grace every menu and window gel a
little wearing after a while and Ihe con-
spiratorial attitude of Windows towards
its users is somewhat annoying.
All throe operating systems are fine if
all you ever do is fire up lhat word
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Kill efficiency, but il's not very user-friendly. Another touch is the usage
q1 text-based directory windows. SystemTs 'Show by Name' function is
far more developed than the similar function under Woritbench with the
ability to have nested directory listings inside one window and also lo
choose how Ihe lisi is sorted by clicking on the appropriate heading in
the window. Under Workbench you need to go back up to the menus to
change the sorting order.
Comment: Limned by being (loppy
based, hopefully Mure revisions will
add more features such as networking
and some of the current shareware
commodities to the installation without
losing speed or efficiency.
With all the hype surrounding the launch of WindowsSS.
Frank fiord thought it mas about time someone compared
the ton three operating systems, su me let him
processor or paint package, work, save
your files and Ihen switch the machine
back off again. But of the three, I would
have to say that Windows 95 is the most
baffling to get deeper than the surface
wilh. System? practically doesn't have
any depth, and although Workbench can
be quite daunting from a shell window.
a! least the files are organised into
directories.
Windows 95 is files, files and more
files, only referred to by cryplic eight
character filenames and Iheir three
character extensions (Windows 95 now
supports filenames with up to 255
characters, but you can be! that a lot of
software won't use them until Windows
95 is well and truly established), dumped
into one big directory.
The hardest thing to get to grips with
is the degree lo which Windows 95
abstracts the desklop environment
metaphor. On a desk, if you want to wnte
a letter, you pick up a pen. Under
System7 or Workbench you can click on
a word processor icon. However, under
Windows 95 you have to click on a
button that does the equivalent of hand-
ing you a pen from inside one of your
desk drawers. Fine until you need to look
for the pen yourself, Microsoft have
obviously worked long and hard on
improving the user-friendliness of ihe
package, but I certainly don't envisage
PC support companies going out of
business in droves because Windows is
now so easy to use.
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Requirements
Memory:
Processor:
HD space:
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386DX33
60Mb
16Mb
4S6DX66
150Mb
Features
Implementation.
Ease of use
Overall
10
_7
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Comment A bit of $ monster, f think
Ihe Microsoft minimum specs are very
much tongue in cheek as the recom'
mended specification is more like a
minimum. Most people seem ambiva-
lent about Windows 95 much-vaunted
abilities saying thai it only really serves
to show just how bad WindowsS. 1 was.
Duncan Evans, editor of PC Home
actually said: "I prefer she Amiga's
Workbench to Windows 95", which
shows how little people think of it.
Microsoft's new slogan is 'Where da
you want to go today?' Perhaps when
you get there you'll find Workbench
and System7 already there.
Conclusion
?
Coming from an Amiga background I
am obviously swayed by the way
Workbench and System? work Both
have a very easy way of working with
the OS interface. The fact that floppy
disks appear when you Insert them,
menus always appear at the top of
the screen, and that files are stored
in places which can be found on the
hard drive are all visual aids to
consistency-
Most operations under Workbench
are performed quicker than
their System? counterparts and
Workbench has more depth than its
Icons would have you believe.
Workbench allows yau lo hide icons
that are not directly usable, thus
clearing up the clutter that results on
Syslem7's desktop- Both systems
are preferable to Windows' hunt the
file' approach.
STUNNING
But Windows 95 is stunning in its
comprehensiveness. The sheer
amount of added features and
support for third-party add-ons is
incredible and goes some way Into
accounting for Windows massive
90 M installation size. Some of that
size is also taken up with gimmicky
features like animated pie charts
which demonstrate how much
memory remains on your machine
(which probably takes up a chunk of
that memory itself) and flying sheets
of paper when you copy files, which
are really unnecessary.
As for hardware requirements,
although Macs are seen as being the
most expensive of the three
machines, it will probably actually
cost you more to maintain a
Windows 95 machine to a comfort-
able state. Throw away that cheap
no-name graphics card, ditch that
slow IDE drive, you really need stale
of the art components to make a
Windows 95 machine fly. It will
obviously come as no surprise to
find out that the Amiga is the cheap-
est platform to start with, especially
given the fact that a hard drive is
considered a luxury.
All In all, even given Workbenches
numerous shortcomings, I still like
it better than the other two. Much of
the usability of Windows 95 and
System? can he added to Workbench
by using shareware and commercial
utilities and commodities. However, if
[things aren't improved by Amiga
Technologies over the next year or
so. then perhaps I would consider
the Mac OS as a convenient
alternative. As for Windows 95. you
can forget It.
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Add-in system extensions - can you add extra
utilities, elc at system startup? Workbench has
WBStartup. System7 has the system extensions
drawer, but extensions can only be started at start-
up. You can however turn all extensions off without
needing to alter any files at startup by holding down
the shift key as Sysiem7 boots. Windows 95 has the
Startup drawer.
24-bit support - both Windows 95 and System7
directly support 24-bil interfaces. Workbench relies
on third-party software like CyberGraphX.
Multiple screen support - System? supports
multiple monitors as standard. Workbench only
allows for multiple screens on the same monitor.
Networking - System7 comes with a networking
protocol called AppleTalk as standard and all Macs
come with the necessary hardware Id enable a
network. Windows 95 has support for several types
of networks and nelwork cards for a PC can cost as
little as E8S.
CD-ROM support - Sysiem? is the only operating
sysiem that will boot directly from a CD. Workbench
only comes with minimal support for CD-ROM and
has no audio CD player.
Comma and the Internet - Windows 95 comes
with a simple comrms package- and has a fax facility.
It also comes with the dreaded Microsoft Not work
which is supposed to report on the contents of your
machine. The Plus Pack adds further facilities to an
already good selection.
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Security - System? and Windows 95 are pretty
secure, although not quite up to the same level as
WindowsNT.
Pre-emptive 32-bit multitasking - Workbench
really scores here, being able to multitask on the
minimum of memory and processor speed. Proper
multitasking is not planned for the Macintosh operat-
ing system until the end of 1 997. Windows 95 is, for
the most part, fully multiiasking, but mos! software
that runs under it is still geared towards a 16-bit
co-operative multitasking environment.
Runs from floppy? - unsurpngingly, Workbench is
the least hampered by having to run from floppy
although it can be done under System?,
Foreign language support - both System? and
Windows 95 have to be reinstalled In the target
language for foreign language support while
Workbench's locale feature can be changed on the
fly. The downside for Workbench is the tact thai
there are no alternate alphabet versions such as
Japanese of Greek.
Plug & Play - the Amiga has always had
AutoConfig to configure zorro cards and other
peripherals attached to the machine and ihe
Macintosh always had the NuBus protocol. Now.,
Windows 95 adds some support tor similar ease of
use. but this is not universal.
DS comparison
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Workbench
System7
Windows 35
Add- in system extensions
VeS
Yes
Yes
24-bil support
No
Yes
Yes
Multiple screen support
No
Yes
No
Networking
CD-ROM support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comms & Internet
No
No
Yes
Security
No
Yes
Yes
Pre-emptive 32-bil multitasking
Yes
No
Yes
Runs from floppy
Yes
Yes
No
Foreign language support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plug a Play
Yes
Yes
Yes
CLI & GUI
Yes
Yes
Yes
Systemwide programming language
Yes
No
No
Representational interface
Yes
Yes
No
Universal menus
System preference changes possible during operation
Three button mouse support
Undelete function
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Hard drive self- repair
Hard drive optimisation
Virtual memory support
Quick start applications menu
Disk compression
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
NO
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Style guide
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Help for the disabled
Online help
Dynamic RAM disk
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
CLI & GUI - System7 only provides a program men
CLI which has a limited range of lunctions and is on**
accessible by a programmers button on the side
some Macs.
Systemwide programming language - Workbench
really scores here too with ARexx.
Representational Interface - does the SCreei
accurately rep-resent the state of your machine"
Windows 95 falls down here because the icons
displayed bear no relation to the location of Ihe files
your hard drive, and floppy drive icons are alway
available even when there are no floppies m them.
Universal menus - under System? and Workbench
the menus are always in the same place: at the top c
the screen. Windows 95 does away with this
consistent approach by attaching menus to individual
windows or the right mouse button.
System preference changes possible during
operation - Workbench has a problem with applies-
lions open on the Workbench itself (which could be
solved by programmers making their applications into
commodities), but otherwise, any preferences can be
changed without the need to reboot. Syslem7 has no
problem with changes made, but Windows 95 can
only be changed in the most trivial way without
needing to reboot.
Three button mouse support - System7 oni.
officially recognises a single button mouse and most
applications under Windows 95 also only use a single
button, although special functions are usually applied
by the right mouse button.
Undelete function - Windows 95 has a function lo
recover deleted files.
Hard drive self-repair - when wrile errors occur al
three OSs will revalidate Ihe drive in question so tha:
although the file in question might be lost, hard driua
integrity is maintained.
Hard drive optimisation - System? will optimise the
hard drives content by the expedient method : I
holding down a key combination when booting, Whe^
equipped with the add-on Plus Pack, Windows 95 wtl
also let you optimise the hard drive.
Virtual memory support - most virtual mem
Systems rely on an MMU and since SO few Amigas
come equipped with one. ihere has never been virtual
memory support in Workbench.
Quickstart applications menu - System? provides
both a configurable menu of applicalions called the
Apple menu and a dock called the Launcher to start
programs. Windows 95 provides the user with an
enormous menu called the Task Bar which lists every
single application on the user's hard drive along with
recently opened files.
Disk Compression - Windows 95 automatically disk
doubles ihe hard drive as Windows is installed ana
also takes care of application added afterwards.
Style Guide - all three OSs have a style guide for
applications, but Workbench is ihe only one thai
doesn't adhere to its own style guide.
Help for the disabled - Workbench's help for the
disabled is limited and implicit but you can adjust the
colour scheme and make fonts more legible by
making them larger.
Online help - Windows 95 comes with ihe mod
comprehensive online help of the three operating
systems compared, Workbench comes with ihe leas!
comprehensive (ie. none).
Dynamic RAM disk - Workbench is Ihe only OS
which has a standard, dynamically sized RAM disk. By
dynamically sized I mean that it only takes Ihe amount
of memory that it requires at the time and grows and
shrinks as necessary.
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+hQ
miga users might have a few
gripes aboul what Escom/Amiga
Technologies are doing to their
favourite compute*, bul when it comes to
3D packages we're still spoilt for choice,
with Lightwave, Imagine, Real 3D (and
others) all readily available, and
Cinema4D waiting in the wings.
Although lhe lirsl three have now been
ported to other platforms, they started life
on lhe Amiga and, as such, already claim
a dedicated coterie of users. Okay, 111
admit you need a pretty souped-up {and
expensive} Amiga lo keep pace with the
speed of any ot these programs on a
Pentium PC, and you can forget about
even getting close lo the rendering speed
of lhe likes of DEC's Alpha machines, but
many jobbing graphics and 3D folks are
sticking with their Amigas and holding out
hope lhat their favourite graphics comput-
er will, like the Tabled Phoenix, one day
rise again from Commodore's ashes.
Anyone already familiar with Real 3D
will know that it has always had ils own
particular brand' of quirkiness which sets it
apart from other programs, bul I guess
every 3D program has ils own charm and
curiosity, which probably endears it to its
merry band of users just as much as func-
tionality and cost does.
IMPRESSIVE
Those familiar with other 3D Amiga
packages may be overwhelmed by Real's
imposing interlace and by the sheer range
of tools and functions it makes available,
noi to mention the whole new set of termi-
nology, hot-keys and methods, of working
which Real employs to do its magic Bui in
the hands of a skilled operator. Real 3D
can compete on equal terms with any of
the current Amiga 3D programs, and if
you were to compare it with expensive
high-end packages such as Alias,
which costs over £20000. Real
3D can still hokt ils own with -
and even improve on - most
of these expensive pro-
grams. Which is, you musl
admit, kind of impressive!
What particularly sets
Real 3D apart is thai it is
Dem bones, dem bones
Improved skeletal control has also made it into version
3, providing extra options for friction and fidelity which
provide more realistic movement and wrapping of
meshes over the skeleton. In particular. Fidelity
significantly reduces lhe amount ot unwanted
distortion which can occur as a surface is folded - for
example, at the back of a knee-joint, for example.
I'm told that the only other 3D program which has Ibis
feature is Alias.
K you combine skeletal control with Inverse
Kinematics Ihen you've got the perfect method for
animating organic and mechanical objects both more
simply and more convincingly lhan any other Amiga
3D program,
In case you were wondering, Real 3D has the a
bility, like Imagine but unlike L^htWave, to mix multi-
ple materials on an object. SO complicated surface
lextures can be achieved with relative ease.
Finally, while we're on the subject of modelling
Real can now handle bumpmap shadows, so when
the shadow of an object falls across a bump-mapped
surface the shadow edges can be made lo follow the
notional heights of the bumps of the map. This
sounds boring, but il looks pretty good in practice.
both very configurable and very flexible.
and has some extremely powerful
features [such as Inverse Kinematics.
Collision Detection and B-spline
modelling) which no other Amiga 3D pro-
gram has yet matched, even though they
have had plenty ot time to piay catch up.
For example, you can set Real 3D's
editing environment up in almost any way
you like. If you want two scene views, a
toolbox and an object selection window on
a hi-res screen, you can design the inter-
face to suit your needs.
II you don't like the way lhe Toolbox is
laid out, just change it, Add as many of
your favourite tool icons as you want and
there you go - a GUI configured the way
you want it to be. Try doing that with
LightWave Or imagine!
Real 3D also has a unique way of deal-
ing with its object management, for which
it uses a hierarchical system
(think of it in
terms
of disk directories and sub -directories)
which can encompass sub-levels and
various other factors , such as materials
and animation methods, which will have
differing effects depending where in the
hierarchy they are placed.
dartf White fey loohs
at Real 3D
uersion 3
B'tplino modalfing, vfcvtotort* and Inrarsg
kinematics allow ftnal 3D to produce smooth
skinned models ot all kirnt*, tol just Burin* dolf*
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Amiga Computing
DECEMBE1
REVIEW
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icons over Hi* opposition ** '** « m»t*™h a/s concerned
Miiih flu.-ii DD you tart nuk? scenes that
ctiuld be canluaea" with photograph*
Rather than having to group or parent
objects together as in other 3D software,
simply moving a directory level into
another level can make all the difference.
By having different levels of hierarchy, a
:arge degree of control can be exerted
over how objects are textured or how they
behave under the influence of Real's
various animation methods.
Selecting an object to manipulate is as
easy as picking its name from the Select
window. Multiple selections can also be
made so that any given group of objects
cart be moved or effected simultaneously.
though this will depend to some extent
where they sit in the hierarchy.
Although there may appear to be a lot
of menu items and icons to point and i. i::K
in Real 3D. that's only half the story, for
many of Real 3D's settings are hidden
away in sub-menus which take some time
to explore, and even more time to become
realty familiar wilh. As well as the more
obvious Material and Render settings
windows, there are attributes settings for
I he properties of each object (such as
whether it casts shadows, has motion blur
or a number of olher properties), settings
for how the GUI works, and so on.
All in all. the mechanics of using R&al 3D
can be rather daunting for the novice, and
even those versed in other 3D software
could have a hard time getting to grips with
the depth and breadth of Real 3D.
That's before I've even mentioned RPL,
the Real Programming Language, which
allows the user optional access to almost
every aspect ol Real 3D, enabling a savvy
3D'er to write their own scripts to be utilised
in whatever fashion they can dream up
Want to extend Real's 2D particle system?
Write an RPL script. Want to impart special
properties to an object? Write an RPL
script. The trouble is. RPL can be a pig to
use since, like most things Real, it works in
an unusual way and writing RPL scripts is
therefore not the easiest thing in the worid.
On the bright side, most Real users sel-
dom, if ever, use RPL, so don't let Itie idea
of it put you off.
Right, I think I've made it pretty clear thai
Real 3D isn't a program for either the faint
hearted or the inexperienced, so let's now
take a look al seme of the things that Real
3D v3 can do. >
Collision defection
routines ara built in
with fleal 3D, tinlike
Dine/ Amiga software
generation
modelling
Unlike Imagine and LightWave, which mainly use
points, edges and polygons to construct their 3D
objects. Real 3D uses a combination of CSG
(Constructive Solid Geometry) mathematical primitives
and B-spllne (smooth curve) mesh modelling to create
objects which exhibit far superior curved surfaces
than the polygon/Phong shaded objects produced by
Imagine Or LightWave.
While Real 3D's approach generates very smooth-
looking objects, il can sometimes be difficult for a
novice or even intermediate user lo get to grips with building complex
models as easily as wilh, say, LightWave or Imagine This is because there can be a lot
of procedures lo follow which require an intimate knowledge of Real 3D's modelling
tools and, with so many to choose from, it can be hard to work oul the right approach in
the first place,
As an example, there is a tutorial on building a smoothly-connected simple hook and
ring object in the manual which takes the user through a series of quile complex steps
involving construction, conversion and deletion of components as the object is
designed. Without such guidance, most users would never figure oul this approach and,
even if you've followed the tutorial several times, you'll still have to come back to it lo
unravel ihe procedures again should you ever need to make a model using similar
techniques. I suppose what I'm frying lo say is that Real 3D has a learning curve which
is sleeper than a Space Shuttle trajectory and to r&alfy get the best out of this
software you won't necessarily need a degree in rocket science, but il might |usl help.
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Amiga Computing
DECEMBER 1 995
REVIEW
Paint that picture
Real 30 has always had a pretty nippy
rendering engine with a lot of output
options, ranging from simple previews to
full-blown 24-bit (or Targa. BMP or PPM)
renders at any size you need (and your
Amiga can handle). Several new additions
have been made in v3, including the
ability to both export and import Jpeg rites
directly, and SuperSampling r which
increases itie rendering accuracy {at the
cost of extended rendering times) by
rendering the image larger lhan is
necessary and then resampling it down to
the desired output size.
LENS FLARE
Another addition is AutoBox, which can
either increase rendering speed by
optimising how Real uses memory
resources, or permil users with less
memory to render images which may have
been impossible before.
Version 3 sees the addition of plug-in
Posl-Rendering Elfects which can be
added as ihey become available, The
currenl ones include Lens Flare (which
unfortunately aren't a patch on either
LighiWave's or even Imagine's less lhan
perfect lensf lares), DisianceBlur and Glow,
Ttii* Fcan* from
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was created entirely
with Heat 3D
Here '% the box from
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huiit ami rendered in
Heat 3D
which provides nice glowing effects on
objects.
Bui of course. Real 3D does much more
than produce still images. As you would
expect, it can also produce animation
sequences (for output to video, digital disk
recorders such as the PAR and also in its
own internal formal for lower quality
display on ihe Amiga itself).
Real has a variety of ways of not just
producing animations, but also of control-
[5G GQual5 faster rendering
As I've saW, one of Real 3D's strengths is the way it
models and the quality of the images which the
modelled objects are capable of producing. However,
this can lead to an unexpected problem since polygonal
objects built in other software cannot be converted
to CSG models in Real 3D, so they will always
remain polygonal once they are imported, although
Phong smoothing can be applied just as in other
programs.
However, CSG and B-spline models use lar less
memory than their polygonal counterparts. CSG objects
also render much faster than polygonal ones. But if you
really need to import objects from other sources you
can - as long as they are in either .DXF (which Real 3D
can also export) or Sculpt3D format. No Imagine,
Lightwave or any other formal is acceptable, which is
really crazy, and it's aboul lime someone, somewhere,
wrote a conversion utility to convert polygonal objects
(of various formats) into CBG/B-spline objects for Real-
You know it makes sense.
One of Real 3D's unique features is that its View
windows can be configured to provide a true 3D
environment for modelling and posilioning objects,
permitting free movement in any direction within the
view. So unlike Imagine or LightWave, where objects
are modelled In a separate editor, Real 3D objects can
be modelled directly inlo s scene at Ihe size and
position in which they are required, so there's no need
to load the objects into an editor or Layout screen |usl to
position them where you need them
A new feature of Real 3D v3 is its ability to draw
spline curves directly onto the surface of a spline mesh
so that the new curves follow the surface of the mesh
exactly. Not only is this very useful for adding new parts
to an object, so that the intersections remain perfectly
smooth, but surface drawing can also be exploited
when it comes to animation, enabling a curved path to
be drawn over a bumpy mesh, for example, and then
have an object follow the path so that it moves precisely
over the bumpy mesh in a naturalistic way,
ling how objects are moved around withr
a scene, thanks to its wide variety of
animation methods, lis quite a simple
matier to make objects follow complex
palhs and simultaneously perfnrr
rotations etc. With the use or more
involved methods, collision detection car
be invoked so that Real detects wh<r
objects collide and what their subsequent
motion will bo. dependent upon mass
friction, gravity. Spin and other (actors. It
must be said that Real's collision
detection can be unpredictable though
and the user will need to experime-
achieve satisfactory results.
In v3 a more comprehensive key fram-
ing system has been introduced which wil
help those coming from other software
bul there are olher, more flexible anima-
tion systems which can also be employed
Uerdict
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Real 3D v3 extends the scope of this
powerful 3D modelling, rendering and
animation system and the new manu-
als are bath better and more useful
than previously, though Ihey can stilt
be mystifying at times. If you can
stand the strain, and Real's overiy-
technical terminology, and you're
looking for a 3D program which will
provide far more options than either
Imagine or Lightwave, then Real 3D is
definitely worth serious consideration.
I've seen what It can do in expert
hands, and I'm impressed. But be
warned. If you're a 3D rookie then
think hard before you buy Real 30 - it
might just turn you off 3D rendering
forever if you can't get to grips with it.
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By Tina Hackett
Gloom boom
oliowing hot on the heels of the success of Black Magic's
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Guildhall. Gloom certainly impressed when it was released
a few months ago and even the cynics that said Doom
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Bundle of joy
It's cricket, cricket, cricket at the moment, what
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Many moons ago we reported on a new pin bad
game aimed at the younger end of the market.
Called Thomas the Tank Engine's Pinball it's
based around the popular children's TV series.
The latest news from publishers Alternative
Software is that it is ready to roll at the end of this
month and features include a definable level ot
difficulty, four tables and nine balls, making it
ideal for younger players.
The RRP has been set at £19.99 for both CD32
and Al 200. This game is the next in the series of
Thomas gomes from Alternative which Include
Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends, Thomas -
the Race and Thomas the Tank Engine
Collection.
Thomas th« Tank Engirt* is geared at
the younger end of the market
Mtinhar HIS
Flights of fancy
Future releases
The games deveJoper is hoping
to set it m a futuristic scenario
This month's moil contained a new flight sim
from a guy called Stephen Birch. I say '•flight sim'
■ as yet it's not a full gome, Stephen Is
currently looking to find publishers for it and so
fof Simon Armstrong from respected developers
Acid Software has shown an interest, although
nothing has been finalised.
Stephen plans to use his game engine in a
futuristic Mad-Max-style scenario which he
Believes will allow for some interesting land-
scapes and planes. He also wants to keep the
game based mainly around dogfights as this will
maximise the split screen element and a four-
player mode will be incorporated via a serial
-ik
He comments: "I hasje thought about texture
mapping, but the engine is heavily optimised
round the Amiga's bitplane system for speed,
and I think more complex polygons for high
spec Amlgas would be a more cunning route to
*ake."
The game is looking rather smooth at the
moment and promises to be guite impressive,
especially as Stephen is looking to make the
game compatible with Escarp's Virtual
-Glasses. Stephen can be contacted at
steveb@mistral.co.uk
Despite the fact thai this issue Is bereft of any reviews there are s^ a fair amount
of games promised for the next few months, We give you the lowaown:
Center Court - Guildhall
Acid Software, makers of the smash hit
Skidmarks are currently busy at work
on their tennis game, Center Court. At
the moment a deal is being tied up
with tennis star.. Andre Agassi to
promote the game.
Track suit Manager 2 -
Alternative Software
A football management sim that
couJd possibly rival Championship
Manger 2, We wait with baited breath.
Championship Manager 2 -
Domark
The game ail football fans have been
waiting for, This stats-based manage-
ment slm brought new depths of real-
ism to the game and provided the
player with the ultimate authentic
game
Virtual (Carting - OTM
A slightly different approach to the
usual racer, this game centres around
the strange pastime of go-kart racing
Citadel Black - Legend
Another in the long-line of first person
perspective shoot-'em-ups - namely
Doom clones. This is from polish learn
Arrakis Software and looks gory to say
the least.
Stephen js hoping that (h*> game
wiH support Virtual i-Glasses
Pole Position - A
An original addition to the racing
genre, this game revolves around the
management angle rather the
usual racing driver aspect
Dungeon Master 2 - Interplay
This RPG is the long-awaited sequel to
Dungeon Master believe It or not
Speris Legacy
Binary Emotion's Zelda-esque game
hits the Amiga
Legends
Krisalis' Zelda-esque game hits the
Amiga
Worms
Multi-format title Worms is set for
release this Autumn. This is a type of
Scorched Tanks-style of strategy that
Is brought bang up to date with
worms, and should be a fun
light-hearted game for a change
Alien Breed 3D
Allen Breed has had phenomenal 1
success among Amiga owners and
this time Team 1 7 have used a 3D per-
spective rather the usual overhead.
However last time there wasn't all
that much competition for that style,
so can their successor really cut the
mustard against all the current Doom
clones?
Itimhr 1115
SYSTEM
hints & tips
6 Although
having been
around for
almost six
years, Police
Quest 2 is still
one of the
most taxing
adventures of
today J
o complete Police Quest 2. a number
of special commands must be entered
for you to proceed to the next part
These commands must be linguistically
accurate, Here they are:
Get keys from Ignition, open the glove box, get
card, look behind card, (write down the combi-
nation), get out of car, go to front door, unlock
the door.
Go to counter (on the far right), unlock bin,
get kit, and then proceed to locker room (2nd
from right). Walk to your locker (it's the first on
the left) open locker, (enter numbers), get
ammo, get gun. get holster, get cuffs,
Go to homicide office (2nd door from the
left), sit at your desk, (empty chair), unlock
drawer, open drawer, read note, get wallet,
look Inside wallet, close drawer, look in message
basket, get up, walk to captain's desk, look at
papers on desk (write down passwords), walk to
key board, look at board, get keys, open
Score: ZA of 306
Police Quest II
Your own personal car is taciltvd on the
tight, your 'business-' car is the blue one
i have a teetinq that alt
this moans, I'm now denf
cabinet, (bottom of the screen) get Bain's file.
get photo,
Go to shooting gallery (past the counter),
get ear protectors from the guy, load gun, raise
gun, fire one clip, lower gun, press view, look at
target, replace target, press back, adjust sights.
(repeat process - returning for more clips if
needed, until sights ore adjusted correctly), get
out of booth, return ear protectors.
Walk to blue car, unlock door, walk to trunk of
car. open trunk, put kit in trunk, close trunk,
open car door, drive to jail.
Open locker, put gun in locker, close locker,
press buzzer, show ID, get Bain's file, take Bains
photo, open locker, get gun, walk to car, open
door, go to oak street mall. Walk to blue sports
Day 2
Open the cabinet to find the Darns
mugshof. It's in the top drawer
Get keys from ignition, go to your office, walk to
key board, get keys., get in car. Drive to West
Rose, open trunk, get kit, walk up to other trunk
take picture of body, get blood sample, take
the body, go to your car, put kit In trunk, close
trunk.
Drive to Marie's place, go Inside, look In the
ashtray, read piece of paper, drive to office
submit evidence, walk up to computer, look at
computer, press on, (for homicide type..) Ice-
cream, look at Bains', (for personnel type..) pis-
tachio, (for vice type..) Miami, drive to inn, walk
up to manager, show ID, show Bains' photo, go
to your car, call dispatch, get warrant, show
manager warrant, get room key, walk up to red
double doors, (save gome and then stay on
the right side of the red door), open door, go
inside, open drawer, get envelope, (under the
lamp), read letter, go to bathroom, pick up
card In sink, read card (write down number), go 4
to your car, open trunk and get kit, go Inside
room, take blood sample on floor, return key to
manager.
Drive to office, submit evidence, sit at your
chair, call Colby, tell him about Bains, go to
kaiilirlHi
92
Don't forget to take your keys out of the ignition
or you wont be able to unlock the door
cor. open passenger door,, open glove box, get
holster, get ammo, talk to lady, walk to vouf car
Drive to cotton cove, talk to jogger, ask her
where, load gun, draw gun, walk to left (save
game), fire at Bains (when he appears behind
the bush), walk back to your car, get kit from
trunk, look for blood, open kit, get blood
sample, make cast of footprint, go east, show
diving certificate.
Get in van, pick up mask, belt. fins. vest, and
tank I, get out, dive down, look, (for golden thing
in river floor), get object, swim west, look, (for
metal spoon), get spoon, swim up, go west, open
kit, take picture of body, go back to your car,
Drive to airport, walk to the black car. go
north, press the button before crossing street,
cross street, buy a rose, go inside the airport,
walk up to the woman in ticket counter, show
her ID, show Bains' photo, go east, walk up to
lady on rental car counter, show her ID, show
Bains' photo, get out of airport, press button,
cross street, walk to your car.
Drive to police station, submit evidence, go
to your desk, sit, coll 41 1. ask for Marie Wlikan's
Be prepared before entering on the
toft. Load and raise your weapon
number, call Marie, look in message bosket,
drive to Acnie, go inside, talk to Marie, order the
lobster, give Marie rose, kiss Marie, eat, pay
waiter.
By Andy Maddock
For all you budding Bob Oyer's out there
who are struggling with Sierra's classic
sequel, here's the complete solution
shooting gallery, practice shooting until sights
are adjusted properly, drive to airport, go inside
airport, took at screen (until Steelfon flights show
up), buy ticket to Steelfon from male agent,
show ID. ask for phone, call 411, ask for Steelfon
PD, tell them about Bains,
Make sure you got your tickets, go west, go
up escalator, walk up to officer, show ID. go
through detector, board plane, sit beside Keith,
-asten seat belt, ask for water, relax until terrorists
appear (save game), unfasten belt, load gun.
get up. draw gun. fire at terrorist (only after stew-
ardess is on the floor), fire at second terrorist.
walk up to masked terrorist, search pockets,
walk to bathroom at the back, open dispenser,
cut yellow, cut blue, cut purple, connect yellow,
cut white, cut yellow, go back to seat, relax until
arrival at steelfon.
Walk up to lieutenant's office, get radios, exit
to park, go north, go any direction, call Keith on
radio, talk to mugger read rights, go east until
you see manhole cover on ground, open cover,
go down, (save game), go east, turn right and
walk fast to next screen, go west, open red
cabinet, pick up gas mask, go east, turn right,
wear mask, go across, go straight on, go west,
draw gun, open door, calm Marie, untie Marie,
(save game) hide behind pipe on your left, wart
for Bains to fire first, fire at Bains until he drops
dead, Congratulations, you've finally complet-
ed Police Quest 21
Score 23 of 3BB
You will get two chance* from your boss, keep
going back to report on various happenings
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preview
i rather than
racing the
car, you play
manager anc
must lead your
Formula One
team to
success <)
Pale Position promises
immense detail
Qscon have made a real
name for themselves with
Amiga owners due to the
success of their On the Ball
football management games. On the
Ball (League and World Cup Edition) provided a
pleasant alternative to the Stats-based
Championship Manager and Premjer Manager,
and for those who wanted
a more picture-oriented
game, this went down a
storm .
And now Ascon are
back, but with a change in
direction. Keeping sports
management as their genre, they have
swapped from football to the fast paced world
of Formula One Racing. This promises to bring on
unusual angle to the usual racing games in that
rather than racing the car. you play manager
and must lead your Formula One team to
success.
Promising immense detail and realism, there
will be many aspects to consider as manager
from keeping team morale high to the technical
details of the race. Ascon also concentrate on
bringing a human element to the game as you
will have to take into account the fact that eacn
member of your team has different personality
traits. Each driver has 30 different values which
make up their character, with opposing teams
calculated in the same way.
Other employees in your team
have a stress level and Just like
in real life, some will be able to
wofk under stress and some
will Simply crack under the
pressure.
In your managerial role you
will have to deal with money
matters such as taking out
loans and making investments.
You will also have to negotiate
contracts and organise spon-
sorship deals.
Also needed Is a head for technology for
things such as purchasing and
developing foreign technologies.
You take control of the construction of
cars and can test prototypes using a wind
tunnel simulation or on the tracks. When
•^.^ you need spares, you can either
buy them or research and
manager you wilt
need to consider all
technical
aspects of the car
Position
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You wit! bo able to keep
in rjid/o contact with your
driver during the race
Previewed by Tina Hackett
Different camera angles will allow you to
cheek the progress of your driver
develop your own. When It comes down to the
actual roc& day, you will be in the pits during
the warm-up. qualifications and the race itself.
You are linked to the driver via a headset andl
can give htm Instructions during the race. TVl
cameras are placed around the circuit and you I
con switch between cameras to get yourl
required view of the race.
The media will also take a keen interest in the
team and you'll have to use your skills to deal J
with them, plus brief the drivers well so the.
won't give anything away to the opposition.
TV-»tyte couermge of the
racos will provide realism
Final word
I This is only a brief glimpse Of what you can
i expect from the full game. As you can see ifc
I goes In to fine detail and all the aspects of
Formula One racing will be more than cov-
ered. Graphics promise to be of a high stan-
dard and using Silicon Graphics, they aim to
create a realistic. TV-style coverage of each
race. Expect a full review soon.
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SYSTEM
No Doom, but
plenty of Gloom
Qmong the many Doom-type games coming your way
is the excellent Gloom by Black Magic Software.
Reviewed a coupfe of months ago it earned a very
respectable score and was described as h completely
packed with smooth graphics, a huge challenge and most of
all action and excitement,' So much so that It Is still played
constantly in the office. Now, courtesy of publishers Guildhall
there are three copies of the game to win, plus a top prize of a
fantastic CD32,
All you have to do to win is design a monster that would look
at home in the game. Pictures can be sketched, painted,
photographed (?l) or whatever else takes your fancy. Then
simply give ft a suitable name and send us your entries no later
than 1 January 1996. The winner will recieve a CD32, with three
runner-up prizes of a copy of Gloom
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4 The game
itself includes
hoards and
hoards of
tactics,
strategies
and general
football- 1 ike
things 9
ootbail gomes are almost certainly spirt
Into two categories, There's the Com-
plete statistic buff's dream of a purely
text based affair - tike Championship
Manager On the other hand there's
the arcade, blistery, sweaty joystick affair - like
Sensible Soccer. There's often the occasional mix
between the two, although no-one has simultane-
ously and successfully blended them together.
For instance, no-one has had the courage to
release a game which has the playabllity of Sensi
and the depth of Championship Manager. Surely
they would combine together well to become the
ultimate football manager game? Well.. No. I
nave to apologise for building your hopes up
because Alternative Software are releasing
another text-based affair - namely Tracksuit
Manager 2.
Before 1 start. I would just like to clear up one
thing. What exactly is a tracksuit manager?
Obviously, the game
is referring to the
manager himself -
but tracksuit? We've
oil seen managers of
loday walk out of
the tunnel leading their team out in "the latest
range of sportswear. Why? I preferred the old
Ron Atkinson and Don Revie sheepskin
coat approach, It gave the managers so much
authority, so why has it been lost?
Anyway, moybe a tracksuit manager Is a kit
manager who washes ond irons all the trackuits
ond then decides which one to wear. Now that
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Championship Manager 2 should be out now
With this and TM2 both looking so similar, if looks
like a huge bottle will be taking place. Tracksuit
Manager 2 is looking, dare I say it, identical to
Championship Manager as the icon system and
features are almost too similar, Having said that.
Championship Manager's icon-driven game was
absolutely superb and there's no reason whatso-
ever why this shouldn't be carried over or
"copied,' I didn't want to use this word but it was
the first one that entered my head when I
noticed the playing style screen was identical.
Final word
These playing formations are
identical to CM2. Well, how
many more can you think oft
It's Beard! Did you know he has had
exactly the same haircut tor eighteen
years, believe it or not!
What makes Tracksuit Manager stand well
ahead of the rest? Well the fact that it's got o
sponsor - a pretty big one too - namely Fizzy-
Che wits, The game Itself includes hoards and
hoards of tactics, strategies and general
football-like things, and although other
games have done this also, Tracksuit Manager
displays the Information In o completely
user-friendly way,
When you call up a menu. TM2 doesn't
dawdle. On a standard 1200 it will appear
almost immediately, which leads to
calculating results as well,
Add all this up and Tracksuit Manager 2
comes across to me as Championship
Manage* with excellent graphics and a
superbly written interface. Considering the
success behind Championship Manager, I
think TM2 will speak for itself. But wait, then
there's Championship Manager 2
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Th* title screen just summarises /tow
many different features there are
miga product plans must be becoming
more and more hectic as the montTis fly
by. For instance. Guildhall Leisure
released a spectacular 3D Doom-Hke
gome only two or three months ago
and already they have just finished their latest
release, In fact It's something you'd never expect -
another Doom-clone! Not a sequel but another full
blown attempt at recreating Doom on the Amiga.
By the looks of this one, they've finally done it,
Months and months of speculation can now
seriously be forgotten because even I didn't
believe a true Doom version could arrive on the
Amiga, We have followed this product since its
creation, reporting on each change and receiving
copies of the game at various stages. Even then. I
was pretty sure this was the one that would put all
the others to shame - including Gloom.
There are 30 levels for you to battle through,
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maze with different textures, doors and aliens, etc,
So hopefully, Fears will never run out of lastability.
The edit level facility is fantastic, especially
as you dent get one on Doom on the PC
Frustration
One major gripe that can be frustrating is the
fact that if you happen to fall into a pit of lavo,
your hearth will run out and you have absolutely
no chance of getting out, Some steps would
have been nice, especially when you're right
near the end.
I can remember getting quite frustrated with
Gloom because although it had continues,
there was no password or save game feature.
Fears Includes this so you can breathe a sigh of
relief when you finally overcome a tricky part to
complete the level. On a save game disk, you
can save many games as well as three
Individually designed mazes.
The Atmospheric sounds are fantastic, truly setting
the scene and preparing you for a trip Into the
unknown. These noises range from the firing of
several weapons to the screams of the monsters.
Incidentally, If Fears does have a dawn point, It's
Reviewed by Andy Maddock
SUPPORTS
A 1200 only
To reach the extra Me, you must risk burning
your feet on the bolting leva. It's worth it though
Taking off the graphical details you end
up with a bland game - a fast one though
rlHI
This screen shows your progress as you
complete each lovel, and how tar you've got to go
The aliens, as you can
see, are really scary
seriously the lack of originality in the monsters.
Although they are well drawn, they fust don't look
scary ©rough. If you were locked In a dungeon
way below the earth's surface and you had to
face the Tin Man from Wizard of Oz and The Mekon
from Dan Dare you wouldn't actually be quaking
now would you.
There will be a CD32 version of the game
which should be hitting the shops about
now and will contain all the original
features and hopefully be nicer
to look at and faster.
When I first played fears on
a standard 1200, It was
reasonably jerky which /
quite obviously reflected h\
on the detailed graphics. I
Although this seemed a i
problem, I overcame it by I
ploying and playing away W
until I wos so absorbed I \|
didn't even notice - until, I V.";
managed to dig out on \
accelerator from the dusty cup- ^1
board. It was a Blizzard Board, *
and playing Fears with one of these
is highly recommended. The speed
Increases tenfold and therefore
produces one of the fastest and
most playable games to dote
The Edit Level facility is excel-
lent for designing your own mazes. The actual
editor tooks a lot like a paint package where you
draw on screen a maze of your choice, AH the plat-
forms, stairs, walls and aliens are allocated num-
oers, so it ends up like painting by numbers. You can
define stairs leading up to small rooms just by
colouring in some boxes. It really is so user-friendly
you will be designing complex levels within minutes.
A good thing I found was the fact you can actually
make a virtual world of your own house - or is that
too sod?
The options allow you to toggle between diffi-
culty levels, screen size, and all different
graphical variations. You can also
choose to play the part of the hero
as a human or an alien.
The screen resolution that
Fears uses Is pretty high so you
can expect a high amount of
detail. However, the resolu-
tion obviously isn't quite as
high as Doom on the PC. To
jj make up for this, though,
J the programmers have
■ included dithering. This will
W blur things a little to get the
W look of the PC. atthough ft
V actually just gives you thump-
ing headaches and bad vision.
You can control the character in
Fears many ways - either by the
mouse, keyboard or joystick. Most peo-
_ . pie prefer the keyboard because
This funnel reads down to soma-
»h.». Probabiy an underwent ^ OU COn ™ aCh Gver * ke V to Open
anum of death, or an ic»-rtr*»m van doors, sidestep, change weapon
and run. With the mouse it is nice
and comfortable to play, but it's pretty awkward to
side-step and avoid bullets- At first you will find it
impossible to avoid the shots from the opponents,
but careful mastery of the side-step will enabte you
to dodge around the wall to prevent death.
6 The
Atmospheric
sounds are
fantastic, truly
setting the
scene and
preparing you
for a trip into
the unknown j
This Song run must be negotiated carefully
because on each side ties a pit at death
When you run out of ammo, you are graced with
a small dagger that does next to nothing
Final word
The response from our sur-
vey we printed a while ago
was tremendous, and from
the results we noticed that
many of you did actually
own accelerators. If you
hove, you can't possibly
miss out on this. If you
haven't, then don't worry,
it's only a tad slower.
In short, it is 'packed full
of excellent graphics,
atmospheric effects and
challenging gameplay -
there's no doubt that Fears
is the best Doom clone ever
created, '
101
tMinlir HIS
SYSTEM
pr#vf#w
All the player'* stars am exaclfy l*)e
him. Fnom whfl* X ha we se»n, thoy
h»ve no special attributes witolseeve*'
fMike Newell gladly puts a foot
on the ball ready lor kick atf.
Hang on, where 's Chris Sutton?
6 One major
iw which
they must at
least change
is the difficulty
settings 5
avlng reviewed and ployed hundreds
and hundreds of football games on
many different formats, I seem to be
able to differentiate between a future
success and a failure. To be honest a
lot of people will write off Team's success already.
and quite rightly so, as Sensible World of Soccer
has to be the definitive arcade football game -
absolutely nothing will beat it on the Amiga, ever.
Having said that, surely Impact Software are
aware of this, although I can't think of an ulterior
motive - somebody, somewhere, must have other
ideas.
So, os I've already established the fact that
Team is SensMike, going off first Impressions It
seems Team will never attract a capacity crowd
like Sens! - nothing will.
At the moment, Team consists of squads from
the International front, such as England, Brazil and
Germany, as well os Premiership teams, Ail the
players' names ore accurate too, as are hair and
skin colour, and you can edit all of these to use in
custom cups and leagues. There's no actual sea-
son option which, in today's football gome
market, is nothing short of a necessity.
Team does contain aspects that would have
been welcomed with open arms in a game like
Sensible Soccer. The collision detection spreads as
r
The crowd will be fully animated In
ttte full version of Team - elf kitted out
in their clubs' latest sportswear too
The title screen shows three players obviously tut! of ecstasy aftar a narrow cup victory
By Andy maddock
Team
far as the actual players themselves to the corner
flags which enables you to perform those off-the-
ball incidents with great effect. There Is also a
referee present and you can set his tempera-
ment to lenient or strict. If you choose strict you
will find him dishing out his cards for the smallest
thing.
One major flaw which they must, at least,
change is the difficulty settings. On my first game
I chose Blackburn as my team but I was
absolutely thrashed 9-0 by Wimbledon.
You're probably thinking the reason
behind this that 1 may have the co-ordi-
nation of a one-legged goat, No, It's just
^too darn hard to get to grips with, When
the opposition gets the boll you don't
I fend to see the flowing, steady build-up
[from the back or even the long-ball
straight down the centre of the pitch. All
that occurs is the opposition gets the ball
and runs - all the way towards your goal
and scores!
Final word
After oil 1hese gripes i can say that this is a
game that could hove potential. If some more
thought and depth went in to the production,
Team could see some of the Christmas
crowds. As football games are the biggest sell-
ers on the Amiga, there will be some very, very
stiff competition to tackle, namely
Championship Manager 2.
Some mapr tweaking is involved If Impact
Software believe their game will guarantee
them success. Scheduled for a release In the
very near future, they've certainty got a lot to
do in a very short time.
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feature
he scene was a noisy computer
trade show. Anyone wanting to see
the latest In the computer end video
game industry was there, ell clam-
ouring round flashing monitor screens and
hi-tech stands. The event was a perfect
opportunity to meet up with developers and
chat about their latest games. One team quite
new to all this was Binary Emotions, but keen to
promote their forthcoming adventure game.
Speris Legacy, they were undeterred and
agreed to divulge a little about themselves.
First tilings first, Who are you and what do you do'
Andy Jolly; Binary Emotions are a small team of sk
and is compromised of 22-year old Clrve Mlnnican
He's the Coding Director, Then there's Ian Jolly 24
the Music Director who's also responsible for the
graphics. I am 21 and am the designer director ana
team manager. We employ three others who ore
Phil Boag-Butcher, 22, who deals with Dis»
Protection, music and additional bug fixing,
Ian Ford. 18. musician, and John Snelson, 15,
programmer. However, we or-e also looking to
employ talented ray-tracers - so If there's anyone
out there who'd like to contact us...,
Thwlr shirty, n*w logo -
something Amiga owners
will b* tming mar* ot
Binary Emotions ne*i
project in the pipelines
is Mrnsfcies Fur Ball*
Speris Legacy 1% Binary
Emotion*' first commerciat
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104
■That's the inspiration behind Spans Legacy?
te hod quite a few ideas before Speris like a
one or two-player penguin assault course game
amkj to the aid B-blt title. Combat School. There
•as also Pilot of Furry and Gaze of Malice - a mas-
sve platform arcade adventure game, By then
*ed built up some ideas to choose from and some
good routines we could use. Basically though,
- great fans of Zelda and wanted to bring
pomes we enjoy playing to the Amiga.
How did Speris turn from an idea
rrto a rutty-fledged gam©?
AJ: Signing up Speris was not as easy as we first
thought We went to Daze Marketing because they
Offered twice as much royalties compared to the
GCQQ6 publisher. They eventually looked at it and
told us that they were only interested In strategy
games on the PC. We then went to Kompart who
r.ggested we should go to an educational
oublisher. Anyway, our next port of call was an
Bducattond publisher called Team 17 (thanks
Kompart!). We phoned Martyn Brown who
unfortunately was in America, A while later he
.ailed back and we uploaded a demo to him and
So you're confident of it's success?
AJ: Yes, because there is nothing on the Amiga
that even comes close - our graphics are far more
appealing! Even if it doesn't do well, which by all
accounts It should, we will be going around and
finding out what we should do to improve it.
What about othef projects?
Aj We also provide a service where people can
send us their old A500 gomes and we can make
them work on an Al 200 for a nominal fee of £2.99,
We have had success 'with over 40 titles such
as Pawemonger, Kick Off, Speedbal! 2 and
Heimdall,
What advice would you give to people
wanting to break into the industry?
PBB: Get an A 1200 for starters, mess around with
Deluxe Paint, and find people with the same
interests, Most of all keep patient and have the will
to go on with it.
AJ- The key is organisation and commitment. It's
no good just having talent, you've got to dp
something about it and try and get your foot in the
door.
wonders
within the next hour Speris Legacy was signed up.
However, we are now looking for software houses
to publish the game multi-format as Team 1 7 have
only signed up the Amiga rights.
What do you think is going to make Speris stand
out against its rivals?
AJ: In our game you have more freedom, The
puzzles are better too, more indirect and varied.
We have better text as well - something along the
lines of Monkey Island.
How long was the gome in development?
U; At first, Speris had a side-on view but then it
changed to an overhead so I suppose it has taken
two years from the very start, but only seven
months for us to complete it from the overhead
stage.
What did you do before seeking out youf fame
and fortune as game developers?
A J Clive, myself and Phil all completed science
courses at Salisbury college and Ian Jolly worked
in the Electronics industry, Ian Ford is studying
computer science and John Snetson Is completing
his exams.
Do you have any other games in the pipeline?
AJ: We are still committed to supplying the Amiga
with quality games, If we have to sell our products
through mail order, we will! We have four releases in
the pipeline which Include Minskies Fur Balls which
is quite similar to Kirby's Avalanche, We also have
Nemesis Syndrome, (Command and Conquer eat
your heart out) only with more stats and less irritat-
ing bits, Then we will be releasing a Doom per-
spective racing Kart game and Speris Legacy 2.
How do you see the
Amiga's position in the
market?
AJ. There are a lot of
people who underesti-
mate the Amiga, I think it
will have a successful
Christmas, Parents., especially, will go for it because
you can do more than just play games on It.
What ate your favourite games of all time?
IJ: Mine's got to be the Chrono Trigger
AJ: Mario definitely because no one can touch it -
there ore just so many tiny details that enhance
the payability that are usually ignored
CM: I'd say Monkey Island
PBB: Speedball 2 - It's not technically amazing but
It has brilliant payability
JS: I really admire Gloom because of all the
technical specifications and routines - people said
Doom couldn't be done of the Amiga, and it has
Thank you for your time.
Anyone
wonting to
contact Binary
Emotions can
reach them on
01722 416074.
The Knmry
Emotion* tmmm
are tanking
forward to the
su&ee&i *F th*ir
forthcoming
release
Minuter 1»l&
SYSTEM
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You could very easily mistake this Tor
GGWCC as there *sn'( a sfngJe naticeabJe
difference - spooky
The fielding torn* been tweaked enormously.
Instead of the computer automatic-Wly
throwing three miles, ydif can
Voo cart select which wicket
you wish to throw the bait to
vim the rather unsightly arrow
i The
waggling
aspect of the
joystick is still
there to
control spin
swing, power
and speed,
and gladly,
the intensity
still remains
the same ^
When batting, holding the
//re button tor longer will
enable more power to be
executed into the that
raham Coach's World Class Cricket has
been around for many years now - only
occasionally did it spawn the odd data
disk now and again. Having said that it
still holds the crown for the best cricket
game - even now.
It's just about the right time for Audiogenic to
release a sequel - not a data disk, but a proper
sequel - that has all the old bugs ironed out,
refreshed graphics, and a new challenge. Well,
It looks like cricket fans from all over the cour-
tly are In for a treat as Audiogenic step back in
to the spotlight and Introduce Cricket '95.
Anyone who's played GGWCC will know
exactly what was wrong with It, I've heard many
grievances about Ibw's. fielding errors and. blind
wicket keepers, but will Cricket "95 fine tune these
problems, wipe them, or even change them so
much that a mutated version of GGWCC will
undoubted^ emerge?
At first glance the only differences are the slight
worn patches around the ground and even on the
side of the pitch. Other than these, there's not much
change. It's when you finally get in to the actual
physical playing of the game that you'll find yourself
saying "0oh, that's better" or even "That's a nice
touch."
The first main difference I noticed was that the
shots were played differently. In GGWCC while bat-
ting, holding down the fire button on the Joystick
would instantly send your ball over or near the
Cricket
By Andy Mad dock
boundary, and this obviously
became the only way of scoring
runs. However, holding down and fire now sends
your ball hurtling high in the air with a 50-50 chance
of either sending the ball swiftly to the boundary ac
more unfortunately, landing comfortably in a
fielder's hands.
Another feature that certainly took me a while to
get to grips with is the fact that every time you want
your batsmen to run, you have to press fire. This
comes in handy if you quickly change your mind or
want to stop the fielder running agaia like they
always used to. It also comes in very useful for
preventing those unavoidable wickets that the
computer often likes to help with.
The waggling aspect of the joystick is still there to
control spin, swing, power and speed, and gladly,
the intensity still remains the same - although the fast
bowlers now seem to inject some impact on the
game and bowl faster and for more accurately.
A new feature that will almost certainty piease a
lot of people ts the fact you can now take complete
control over all your outfield players via a highligh-
ted star around the feet of the selected fielder. This
allows you to decide where to run, the quickest way
to get there, and which wicket to throw the ball tol
All these changes gradually become more
effective and noticeable os the game goes on,
Hopefully before it's released we'll see even more.
Audiogenic's Cricket "95 is undoubtedly shaping up
to be a big hit,
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ti your Workbench This month we'll
d^ve mto problem areas with your software.
When ts a picture not a picture? Quite
often you might receive a file thai is labelled
& say, an IFF picture. However, when you
jry to toad that file into your copy of Deluxe
Part for instance, DPaint comes up wrth a
•nessage saying there is a problem with the
1 He Don't despair, at (east net yet. There are
plenty of things we can do to try to find qui
Tether {he (He is an IFF picture or not.
On the Amiga, we are fortunate that our
rxograms will try to get around a corrupted
:::■. o?!}mc n TuLhiis posjfcte before
gMng an error message. Thts is something
we take for granted, but PC -and Mac
Owners would give (heir right arms for the
ability. Basically, the way roost software on
the Amiga works is to took at any header
nformatron for the fife. PC softwarejust
tends to ermine the file extension and if
dw file doesn't conform to the expected, just
gives an error message, The same appSes if
there is a problem with the body of the file
H-HEHD
So our first attempt should be to check
the file is actyalty a picture, One erf the
easiest ways of doing this is to use an image
processing program with a universal loader
to load the rrnage, Both ADPro and ImageFX
have a wide variety of different file formats
that ihey can toad using a universal loader,
so by to load it in there.
Qurte often you wiJI then see ADPro |or
irnageFX) then saying: Mow loading a GIF
fite" or something simitar, If that's all there is
to it, then hurrah, all you then need do is
save out the file as an IFF, converting it
down to 256 colours, or HAM if it is a 24-bit
format file, first and load rt back into DPaint.
If. however, neither ADPro nor ImagtfX jor
whatever image processor you havej will
load the file., then perhaps it is not a picture
after all.
Our next step is a bit teccrne, but almost
certainly necessary, to determine what our
fife actually is. We are gang to loo* at the
file at bit Jewel, using a hex reader, If you've
got DOpus, then you've got a hex reader
Safe hex I
Hexadecimal is otherwise known as
base 16 and hex numbers go from
«ro to IS in 'normal' or decimal
notation. Because we don't have
characters for the digits 11 1 S we
use letters, thus the equivalents of
8 through to 1 5 in hexadecimal
where F is the same as 1 5. This
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Problems,
problems
What to da if something isn't working
coirertlM and qou don't know how to Fin it
Oops! Can 'I load that tilv Snto DPaint. I thought ft was an IFF file...
DOpus will also display any file it can't find a
match for in the defined classes as a hex file,
so if you don't have a button defined for
hex reading you can always just double-dick
on the file, This also has the added
advantage of allowing DOpus to check
through all its defined classes to see iF the
file is known
Anyway, you'll probably find yourseir
staring at a text display split into two halves.
On (he left there will be rows and rows of
hexadecimal numbers, and on the ngnt
New i hg»*TTg JPEG Be ^ ^^^^^^^^^
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Amiga Medical Part 11
there will be normal ASCB characters. The
most important bit is right at the start of the
file. If you can see the characters '-ihS the file
is an Lha archive, GIF 87' or tSFBW means
the file is a GIF picture file of some
description, and a file with the letters TORM'
at the Start of it will be an IFF file of one sort
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document - and if (he file is just an ASCII text
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text
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H is eve*ywnere It may not be
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« sure brings jn the bucks for both
advertisers and animators alike.
he wacfcy world of advertising,
deadlines are everything, fis a
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Be stylish affects with the minimum
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and effective design
The first and most important rule is to
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by the various elements appear to zoom
•n from all manner of angles and
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sliding into position along simple straight
motion paths while the camera creates
the illusion of frenetic activity.
In our shameless example of corporate
flag waving, the Bevel bars appear to fly
on-screen from left to right, closely
Seeing is
belieuing
Paul Austin GHpfains the easq way to
qualitM camera angles plus the finer
points of the fining logo
followed by the letters JDG and the word
media which glide in from right to left
The camera then pans from left to
right as the IDG emblem goes flying
overhead and stacks into position
alongside the lettering. At the end of the
camera pan there's a brief pause prior to
the emblem exiting in a reverse stacking
motion, providing room for the word
media to exit right to left, followed
by the IDG lettering exiting left to
right.
Building blocks
The first step In any commission is to break
the animation down on paper - prior to any
design work, Think about it in terms of intra,
hold and outro - if applicable. From that
standpoint you'll have a fairly accurate guide
to how long you've got for each element. If
you don't have a solid pdan beforehand,
I guarantee you'll lavish way too
much time on certain elements
which will eat into the design,
adversely affect others, and
eventually end in cut corner*, and
a patchy, if not poor, production.
The next step is to design the
basic camera motion. Assuming you
have the logo and any other elements
loaded up, arrange them in their final display
position, If you're after a looping anim like this
one you have three all-important frames to
define.
The first of these Is the off-screen key where
nothing is visible. The next rs the intro end key,
where according tg your plan all the elements
should be their proper place, and the third is
the final camera rest posrtton prior to the
outro.
Once you have these three keys, make a
preview and check the various camera
angles throughout the animation, ft
may be necessary to add additional
keys to keep the action in frame
during the sequence. Remember:
it's important to keep the number
of key frames to an absolute
minimum. In this example four were
used. Under no circumstances attempt
any animation of the logo itself until these
basic camera positions are set.
During the first part of the preview the
camera may fly through the objects, but hear
in mind they're likely to be off-screen at this
stage in the finished production
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During all of this the bevel bars exit
from front to back in a similar stacking
move. The end result is a loop which
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frames.
The f lyby
Once happy with the basic camera
movement you can turn your
attention to the logo- In our
example, ail the elements moved
either left, right forwards or
backwards in straight lines. For
this kind of movement the basic
X,V,Z views are idea/.
Firstly, create a key frame for all
the objects at the intra end frame -
as used by the camera. This ihould
be a duplicate or the logos frame ;
zero position. Now go back to
frame zero ami use the X,¥ and Z
views to move all the elements into
their off-it reen starting positions
- creating a hey for each -
alternating between the views and
the camera for fine tuning.
Make a preview and check for
any collision damage or glitches. If
all's well you can move to the
outre camera key frame and add
the key frames for the logo objects
- these should be the same as the
intro end positions. This should
lock the logo in position during the
main display section of the
animation.
Mow go to the fast frame in the
animation and reverie the intro
design by moving the elements off-
screen, again using the X, Y and Z
views in combination with the
camera for fine-tuning,
Make a full preview and you
should have the basic intro hold
and outro- N«nt time well look at
adding the finishing touches to the
motion paths plus some hints and
tips regarding logo design.
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TUTOR I R L
Hidden identity
Assembler Part 16
Qatatypes, which were
introduced wrLh Workbench
3.0, provide a way for an
?pplicdtron s program to both
recognise and rend/write various data
file formats without having to learn all
tfie messy details about how the data in
the files is stored, The datatypes library
implementation is 'object oriented and
it's based on the BOOPSI-reiaied ideas of
intuition
In short, a datatype can be regarded
ai a program that hides the rile format
detail. An application can open the
datatypes library, pass a filename to it,
and ask whether it recognises the
formal Th? datatypes library has a look
at the fife, consults its list of installed
datatypes, and then comes back either
with a suitable block of data identifying
the file, or a not recognised' indicator
Paul Dueraa shows an easy wan to identify
the general characteristics of a
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identified there are various other
datatype library functions that can be
used for readrng/usmg the file and
identifying the various 'methods' (i.e.
associated functions! that can be used
with that datatype,
Far the purpose of this month 5
example, however, we are setting our
srghts jusl nn uung the datatypes library
to identify the general characteristics of a
specified frle, and we'll do it using two
functions called Obtain Da taType/VJ and
RefeaseDataTypef) (see ookduls for
details], if the call to Obtain DataTypeA/J
Figure 1
is successful a pointer to a Datatype
structure will be obtained and the
dtr>_ Header field of this structure points
to a block of information containing
these fields shown in figure I
Ail ill t>e doing is printing the
dth_Name field to provide a generaf
description of the datatype, This may
seem a relatively simple task but there
are still quite a number of operations
which need to be performed- I've
marked each oF the mam steps taken
by the program in this month's source
code ?nd many operations, opening
libraries, priming te*i messages using
the WRITE DOS macro and the amiga.lib
printf || function etc., will be familiar
from previous instalments. There
are, however, one or two other areas
of the code that do need some
explanation.
Collecting the command
line argument
When a program is started via the Shell register, ad will be pointing Id
the start of the command line arguments and dO will be holding the asso-
ciated character count. The example program, dec test, will expect a file-
name to be provided so it needs this sort of usage template,,, dec test
somefilename. What is needed Ihen is a loop to copy the filename argu-
ment, and for safety (in case a user wrongly provides more than one
argument) I'm using the following loop that copies the argument to a
buffer but exits immediately if a space separator is found (since this
would indicate that two or more arguments were provided)!:
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In order to use the ObtainDataTypeAt) function it is
necessary lo have a lock on the file. This is
achieved using the dos Lock() function and it is
important (hat a shareable lock (i,e. an
ACCESS. READ lock) is asked for because the
datatypes library will subsequently also need to be
able to read from the file-
Once the lock is available a call lo Obtain-
DataTypeAj} can be made and the datatype header
structure address obtained from the returned
datatype pointer. The conienis of the first longword
of the header struclure can be used as part of a
printJfl call to output the datatype's general name.
The code for the above steps is shown in listing 1
bul you will, of course, find the complete source on
the Cover Disk. Don't forget, Incidentally, that
because the example is using the printf () function, it
will need to be linked wilh the amiga.lib library using
this sort of command line:
blink decjfst.o ta deejist Library itiga.lib
Running Ihe program is easy: Just open a Shell
window and type decjesi followed by a space and
then the path/filename of the file you wish to exam-
ine. Try using the example code to identify IFF pic-
ture files, sound samples, other text files and so on
but. as you run it. do bear one thing in mind - ifs not
my code lhal's doing all the hard identification work,
it's the datatypes library!
Function: uttainDataTypeM)
Putpphi Tg 'identify ihi diu typi of a fill
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D H I fl L
heep it natural
Amiga 2D Part 2
O
n last month's article I
defined the different
procedures in designing 20
pictures and explained how to
build a suitable palette. This month I will
be demonstrating hDw you can create
natural backdiops - both cartoon and
realistic without spending hours at the
keyboard.
As mentioned before, there are two
types of natural backdrop and both have
good and bad points. Tne realistic
&ackdrop provides exactly thai - realism
but at the price of greatly increased
design lime. Cartoon is relatively simple,
easy on the palette, and cakes a fraction
of trie time required for realistic
backdrops.
Although the type of backdrop
depend* on tiie style of design, it is
probably a wiser decision- to opt for the
carroon styJe until you feel experienced
enouqh to tackle realistic backdrops.
Finally, as the Sea and sky are the
most dreaded of backdrops, it is these I
shall be demonstrating,, concentrating on
she cartoon style first
For a reasonable cartoon-style sky you
will need, at maximum, four colours from
your palette and for the sea, six, The
objett is noi io try and get as much
detail in the backdrop as possible but to
break it up into blocks of colour that
simplify the image while maintaining its
identity.
In the sky and sea image shown or
this page you can see that although
Don't go
spare
Good advice to any budding artist ii
to build ft comprehensive image
bank. Collecting high quality,
digitised scenic images available
from reputable PP houses, allows
you greater flexibility in your image
design. If you are creating realistic
backdrops you can simply use these
digitised images complete or cut
particular bits out as brushes and
incorporate with your own work.
*f^g
If natural backdrops fill qou with dread.
Steue White shows how creating realistic
backdrops need not be a nightmare anmnore
Although cartoon backdrops us* limr totoura, the
end result e*n he as effective a* a rm*li*tic backdrop
there is little detail m the sky, the overall
effect worts well One reason u that the
eye concentrates on the foreground -
the palm tree - and the backdrop drops
out of focus, blurring it as a result.
Another is that the backdrop and
foreground images have been designed
m the same style - that is using fewer
colours and reducing the amount of
detail as a result.
GHHDIEni EFFECTS
The sea js simply a filled area using a
gradient fill. Gradient effects are
excellent for filling large open areas in a
smooth transition of colours. Obviously,
si this is a cartoon backdrop the need
for a smooth transition is reduced.
The gradient tool allows you to specify
a range of colours, in this, case light to
dark blue, and aiter the dithering
between colours. Uung the vertical fill
option, all that's required is a dick of the
mouse and you've got <t perfectly
presentable seascape. The transition is a
coarse one but it worts
The final affect in the image is the
mountains and hills An important
technique to use here is colour hazing, if
you look out over a scene you should
notice that the further away objects are.
•hey appear Tnis is referred to
as deptn layering and you can apply this
effect to your 2D image
All you need to do is create a spread
of colours \ using the Spread tool I - the
amount depending on the number of
layers - and fill the different layers m
the colours in the spread, beginning at
the darkest and ending with the lightest
As a Final addition, the sea is coucheo-up
with white flecks demonstrating the
crests of waves and shoreline You can
also use the blues used for the sea to
Wend in the white.
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considered
cheating, but
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imflget cam
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The real McCoy
Realist* backdrops are the exact opposite of cartoon backdrops in that they require
smooth transitions [spreads), lots of colours, and intricate detail. However, most
competent pami packages include tools for designing realistic backdrops
One or the most useful tools for creating a real-world feel to 2D designs is to use
pixel blending or anti-aliasing, Anti-aliasing takes the colour you are currently drawing
with and blends it with the colour you are painting on. If you had a black background
and painted white onto it, the anti-aliasing would automatically add a grey pixel
between the black and white.
The result of this is to eliminate jaggies - the biocky effect clearly visible when a low-
colour palette is used, if you design your backdrop elements Dn the spare page you
can simply grab them as brushes and paint them onto the m^m image with the anti-
aliasing enabled. If you work from the back to the front [good advice when designing
any picture), anti-aliasing wiil Jook effective as well as saving hours of painstaking
work.
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professional toe* to realistic backdrops with the minimum amount of fuss.
That's all for this month, Next month I will be giving a breakdown explanation of a
futuristic city scene I designed, as well as demonstrating other useful paint package
tools.
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^^H ve been racking my Drains over the
I last couple of months trying to come
I up with something a little special fof
1 this issue. I wanted to provide
imethtng that was going to be of real
practical value and the topic I've come up
with is this - an incredibly easy way of using
the ASL file requester from within your ARexx
scripts when running an Release 2+-based
machines |of course. WorkBench J users can
also use the ArnigaDDS RequestFile
commandj.
What was needed, of course, was a
function library that provides an interface
Between the Exec-style ASL system library and
ARex* itself. To be honest I couldn't Find one,
so the solution was to sit down and write my
own- The good news is that, having now
completed the necessary coding, I can now
give you both the library and an explanation
of how it is used.
The library is called the 'arexx.asl. library'
and lite any other Amiga library, it needs to
be in your LIBS: directory jnormally assigned
tp the U/nffcbenchrlibs drawer} in order to be*
found by the system, The first thing you
should do then is copy the library from the
cover disk to the appropriate LIBS: drawer. For
the function library to be accessible to ARexx,
it must also be added to an internally
maintained Aflexx library list. This can only be
done while ARexx is up and running and It
needs to be repeated every time Altera is
restarted. The easiest way of doing this is to
use the Add Lib) I function m your scripts. The
parameters expected by AddLib|| are the
library name, a priority value [usually 0), a
negative offset value which I'll talk about later,
and a version number.
It is normally best to check whether a
library is already in the library list or not
before attempting to add it and, this being so,
the code for adding the library is usually
t* ittjtH.tiu V
Rn RHbhh callable
RSI file requester
n i nn£X>l_ — ■ '" - Till *i*
riidii
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written like this
then do
{ill M(JLihtar(XK_Bsv.Uhriry',D,-
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end
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it -shail. l LYarm_8sl.l i »'.r]r ,, >
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Some additional details
For those of you who are nested in the underiyng mechar-o oHuncmr, ^^^T^
like [o *now that even though an ARe** furtton library ft esse*** a n^^-H^iOrary.
ARexx only ever calls one .ihrary f unctrcn directly. ™**£« ?*^" "^ ^
library Is opened a standard £*et QpenUbraryiJ call k performed Wowed by a w« to a sealed
■query' function wh,ch proves the interface between ARex* and riie real fcbr*y «m ^
... — —-"ie convened name of the Ifcrdry furiction
. -_._ _^^^., XFI ....II
juc i iii'^ 1 ! fc «i ' ii ii- ■ ■»*"■■ ™ -r * — r
have provided the query function with the name SI
ntatchr-.th, n.me to the corresponding real' SelectFife|| function present in lj*««^ J"J
,ry routines are accessed using rwgat^e values known as library vector off et, or
LVOs, which effectively represent M in a table that lists the a^abfc >«««"» "**"* * r ^
Since these 'vectors' are each si, bytes long and the library function vectors -6, U-\
set aside for special system purposes, the first vector available for «
slot above -24. name* -3° DwQnen of most A&exx hbrar.es us
first real function of their library, hence its address tends to go into the JO LVO star Jve done
e^the^e ^Ing so thatThe mag. numb. -30 in the AddUb() statement is then simpi, ar
LVO offset value representing. Ifo i library's query function.
potentially available to the script,
Once the arenas! library is in place the
A5L requester use issues are very easy
indeed to understand. The Horary provides a
single SelectFitej] function whrch allows you
to incorporate the asl library file requester
using a statement like this:
fU(niiBt-SiL«tFUt(>
When this line is encountered the all
requester appears and. providing the script
user selects the requester's OK gadget the
name of the selected me gee sent back to
the ARex* variable specified on the left-hand
side of the statement ffflenameS in the
above case) If. inc»dentB«y. the user makes
a rye ieteoion but then has second
thoughts and caneefc the requeiter Bw
variable bemg used for the filename will he
set to a nun string in other words, only
valid selections ever get bacx to the ARex*
script.
And that s basically all there is to it - the
underlying library code handles all the
complicated stuff completely transparently,
so the benefit, as far as the Afiexx user is
concerned, is that it becomes possible to
bring up and use the asl requester via a
single tine of ARexx code.
What we need now is a runable
example and you can find this in listing I.
All I'm doing in this script is collecting a
filename and printing it back at the Shell
window. Needless to say, once you've
collected a filename as an Afiexx string,
yqu can of course do whatever you want
with itl
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I suspended animation since last year,
U B J|||ch& world or the Amiga has been
growing daily, rfrid nowhere more so than nn
the Interna. On the Web alone there are more
Amiga-based sites than there are BBSs, and more
information than you could fit in 1 00 books.
My particular favourite are The Eric Schwartz
Web Page, which has been set up and
maintained by Mart fagby-Jones who presently
resides at Kettle College. Oxford. The pages
contain The Ene Schwartz Animation list, which
has information on virtually all of Eric Schwartz's
animations, Far each animation it gives the year
of creation, a brief description, system and
memory requirements, file nzes, running time,
and direct downloading links from three Amrnet
Rmiga Computing
Uleb directory
sites Blah blah, yada. yada. It's great. and rfs all
waiting there on the Internet for you tu
download! Then there's Dark Unicorn
Productions, a shareware library and home of the
Amiga Web Directory, a great directory of links to
Amiga vVeo.
This is the nearest l can get within the scope erf
this page to a fuH-ish directory of all the Amiga
pages that ewst at present on the Web. This is as
accurate as I could get at the time of going to
press, but or course the Web berng what it is,
some of the sites will have gone off-line and
others will have been added. There are alsc
of personal home pages which are not really
worth a visit, But after all this, here Is the
definitive list.
he Amiga bookmark list
Dark Unicorn Productions
Amiga Shareware Games, demos, previews.
and info.
http:/Avww. mcd. on. ca/tongbow/dup/
Eric Schwartz
Descriptions and downloading links for Eric
Schwartz animations on the Amiga,
http; //info.ox.acukA kebt02uf*/erk. html
Amiga Computing
Ooh look, it's us!
http://www.demon.co.uk/amigacomp/
Rainbow of Chaos
An on-line art gallery featuring works by Amiga
artists;
http://www.indy.nerAg>emini//
Viking Computer! - UK
UK-based retail of PC and AMIGA hardware,
software and multimedia peripherals.
Specialists in support.
fittp://www. u-net. com/~vilungc/hOTne. htm
Render-Cam Images
Behind-the-scenes tour or a 3 D Computer
Animation workshop. Tools and sample images
are featured. Also, Lightwave, the NewTe*
animation system developed on the Amiga.
http:/Awww„crl,com/-rci/rci . htm
Thor
A newi/mail/BBS reader for the Amiga,
hit p. .Vwww.cs. uiLnoZ-kjelli/thor html
Village Tronic's Picasso board
The Picasso is a Zorro fl graphics card providing
modes up to 1 600k 1 2C.Q and depths up to 24
bits,
http://www.phone.net/~rriwrTi/picas5Q/
Amiga mosaic
Mosaic client for Amiga platform |developed at
sunysbt
hBp://insTi. physics. sunysbedtr/AMoiaic/
AflexxGuide | Amiga Rexx| Copyright ©
1973,1994 Robin Evans
AflexJtGuide is a complete ARex* reference
wilh tutorials and dozens of ready-Knise
examples.
hrtp VAvww halcyon com/itiouitaAivw/arewigij
ide/main html
The MOD Page
A page about Amiga MOO musJC format fife*.
http.//www esfcimo.com/'future/modj.htm
Anything Goes BBS
A free access BBS serving the world Ivia telnetj
and Hawaii i'vi*. dial-up access] . Focuses are:
Japanese Animation, Role Playing Games.
Amiga computing, and general furil
http :/ Awvw. mxi. com/- mooncrow/bbs. html
Amiga FAQ
Lots of great info especially for beginners, by
Ignaz Keflerer
http://www. mslfinfe. cornZ-ikhisel/Ar'mgafAOjQ
c.htmlAmiga FAQ - In English
Amiga Mailing Lists
Subscribe to newsletters, questions & answers
and other specialised info delivered regularly
and automatically to you via email!
httpVAwww.iam.com/amiga/1ists.html
HENSA/mkros Amiga Section
Another nice Amiga file archive site in the UK.
http.//mJcro5.hensa,ac.ux/micros/
amiga-dos htmi
AIP - Amiga IOPS Project
The Amiga IOPS Project is designed to provide
a fully intefnet<ompliant TCP/IP stack for the
Amiga. (Good luck boys 1 )
hrtp://rr^ro.tumpifce.net'N/NiaJ n y
aip_home.html
ALynx
ASCII-Wec-Browser for fimilCP ported by P
Marquardf.
http://www.fhi-
berlin.mpg.de/amiga/alynx.html
The AMOS Web Site
A source for Amos information and products.
http://mmm.mbhs.edu/~achurch/amoi/
Christian Bauer
Author of Frodo, a C&4 emulator and
ShapeShifter, a Mac emulator
http /Avww unHnainz.cte/~bauec002/
Andy Dean
Author of imageStudio and TextureStudio,
two well-done image manipulation
programs
http://www.ee.ucl ac.uk/-adean/
Michael Fischer
One of the original developers of Amiga
Mosaic
http://insti .physics, sunyjb.edu/~greendog/
image Engineer
24-bit image processor and enhancer by
Simon Edwards.
nttp://miny05 .xx . rmit.edu, au/-s940 7 3 49/
Netrek
Trog's guide to the mufti-player, networked,
space combat game.
http://www.cycor.ca/TCave/AmiTrefc.html
PJami
Project aimed at porting the Hot Java Web
browser to the Amigja.
http://metro turnpike. net/N/NialJT/
horjava.html
NewTefc
Product information on The Video Toaster,
Video Toaster Flyer and Lightwave 3D.
http://www.newtek.com/
Supra
• ers of modems and Amiga peripherals.
http: //www. supra .com/
Amiga Report Magazine
The latest news in real-time hypertext or
downloadable AmigaGuide docs
http. //www. omnipresence, com/Amiga/News
/AR/MainPage.htmi
R.A.W.
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here. J
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I kay. last month we taught you how
I to make a pong-type game. Fun
^^J wasn't it? Yes, of course it was. don't
give me that sulky "it was alt nght I s pose' bee
Now this month we'll be tackling another
favourite arcade problem. Defender, that old
Williams.' classic, had a spaceship in it which
respcn&KJ to joystick commands and flipped
honjpntally from left to right and went up and
down. Sounds simple right? Not necessarily.
you have the problem of getting Amos to
react to joystick commands which., depending
on the version of Amos yew are running, is
either easy or hard, EASY AMOS is lacking some
of the quick plug and play-type joystick
commands. But it's easy enough to get by that
with a bit erf judicious twiddling. Flipping the
sprite is easy too, but it again depends on your
version of Amos.
Okay, let's start by telling you how to do this
in regular and professional Amos:
Firstly we credit ourselves, in this case me.
and then open a 320 by 256 pixel low
resolution scneen, Then we turn off the flashing
colour, hide the mouse pointer, and turn the.
flashing cursor off. Finally, we clear the screen.
This is a standard program start
Defend
yourself
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Rem * ' * Defender Ship Movement ***
Rem " * by Phil South
Double iufft;
Screen Open 0J2O,Z56, fG.LO-res
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Flash Off : Hide : Curs Off ; CIS
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After the usual credit and screen stuff, we must
create our test sprite. We do this by grabbing a
simple shape drawn on the screen, The shape
I've chosen is one which has a left and nght to
it - a small rectangle with a point on it, I've also
added a little black rectangle to imitate a
window in the space ship, as it were. These are
simple graph/Ls but they wtlf give you an idea
of which direction the sprite is pointing.
folnn U l» 3(1,11 Tn 55,5 ta JD,1Q To 0,111
To D,8
Int. ! Bar J0,2 To 35,4
B*t Bst 1,0,0 To- 34,11 i CLi
Ink 2 : Polygon 11,5 To 5,0 Tn 35,11 T« 15,10 To
5,10 Tn 0,5
Ink : Sir 1,2 T» 5,4
Get Bob 2 ( 0,& T* Ji,11 : CLi
Draw a polygon in the default colour - white
- and then draw the bar which is colour 0.
black. Then we grab the sprite from the screen,
being careful to leave a one pixel gap around
the bottom of the iprite. because for some
reason Get Bob will always grab one pixel less
than you ask it to in each direction. Vou could,
of course, substitute your own sprites drawn in
DPaint or something, but make sure they
occupy slot 1 and 2 in your sprite band, with
image I facing right and image 2 facing left.
Okay, a little bit of Stardust is required to
r.ai<e the screen less Chan a complete blank
ares of space:
For M To 5D
Ink 2 i Hut llrd(320J,liidt25nl
Ittl 1
Now down to the meat and potatoes. Set
Double Buffering to smooth the movement
around the screen, then sec the initial position
of the sprite and the first image you want it to
have, so it's 1 00 pixels across. 1 00 down, and it
IVb'vb gel the ifflre'roTd ana the main
bob, now far th* bmckgmund ....
I«1
Now we have the mam loop Trus reads the
joystick position and adjusts the direction of
movement and the facing of" the ship
accordingly
!»
If Jltftd) TtW 1*1
H )r1|*t<1) Tbtn I>1
! I1*J
In this case, if the joystick is pointing left or
righl the sprite image is altered to fit the
direction, and the X co-ordinate is incremented
and decremented by 2. |Note: to make the
spnte move faster make ft 3.) This moves the
sprite back and forth,
it lupin Then M«TH
If Jdovnfl) Then T1*Mt2
Similarly, these neat lines check to see ff there
are any up or down movements of the joystick,
and iocs or decs the Y coordinate. Obviously, if
you wantetf the image to change when the
ship went up and down, in the manner of
something like fi-Type, then you could do the
following:
If 114 Then (1=11
II »t>275 Then S1=275
If ¥icO Then rl=D
If IUZ34 Then T14J<
Then you can check to see if the sprite is
reaching the edge of the screen. If it touches
the visible edges you make sure the coordinate
stays at that number, so it doesn't move any
further off the screen (Note; you couid also
limit the player to a certain area of the screen
to make it harder to avoid certain obstacles. |
■ The final unrman in alt Hm
Story. ia0U* quit* snaiiy.
Finally. you end the mam loop by printing the
Bob to the screen at the right rocafon after all
the calculations, and voiia. There it is, the basic
engine for making a space ship scroll around
the screen ancf ffip directions. Okay, so now all
you have to do is draw the sprites, do a neat bit
of dual pJayfield scrolling for the ground,
animate the aliens, and sample some cool
sound effects, but other than that you're sorted.
|lm joking of course.} I will be showing you
how to do dual piayfield scrolling in a month or
two, So watch out for that.
The only real change to Ws program if you
are u$mg Easy AMOS is, of course, the joystick
movements are not scanned for in the same
You use the JOy function, with JOYf.l 1= I
etc. subbing for the JLEFTf 1 J and /RIGHT) I \
commands. The directions are
tot 1,11, T1,I
liit. VH
L*«B
Apart from that everything is the same.
Write stuff
If you have arty other Amos programs or
queries about Amos, then please write to the
usual address, which is: Phil South. Amos
Column, Amrga Computing, Media House,
Adlington Par*. IvlMtlesfield 5K I D 4NP.
Please send routines on an Amiga disk with
notes on how the program works on paper,
not as text files on the disk. Make the routines
short enough to appear in print, i.e. no more
than about 30-40 lines of Code, and if possible
make them use no external graphics, or if they
cant tie used without them then be sure to
provide them on the disk In native IFF format,
and the same goes for sound files. Follow
these guidelines to the letter ancf you'll be
certain of making me a happy bunny if
nothing else.
Phil South
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HU you can t icaie them up wahou
bi r:ij resolution roaa imago art no km a
resolution to look good when pruned, and
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The only problem you can have with
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Mr-res laced screen which is something of a
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What's more, compositing mono clip an is
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than a good eye for the consequences and
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STflllDntHY ORDER
For a recent wedding I had to create an
ensemble of stationery including an order of
service, invitations, place cards, letterhead for
thank you notes and frnaJry a menu. Srnce my
client jmy girlfriend's brother) didn't want to
run to four colour printing. I decided to use
Paper Direct'* overprint papers to provide a
nice four colour look, without the expense.
Once the client - his name's Dan, by the
way, it's shorter and easier to spell - had
agreed on the deiign of the paper, I set to
work designing the layouts of the various
items, We used a three fold brochure for the
order of service and menu, so, reusing the
template I created for the publishing column
a few months back, l set out the hymns and
Bitmap Fun
7ft* <>t{g}n&t
dip—
toClll na
glm*t**l
prayers In the order of service But
there was a lot or blank spate on the cover
and there was nothing on page two, the
interior Hap I suggested a clip for the
cover, but the only one I could find
that was vaguefy what Dan warned was
a bouquet of flowers. The only fly in the
ointment was the brace of glasses
standing next to the flowers
No problem said I. I II fix that in a j iffy
Faking the clip into DPami. I swiftly wiped
the offending pixels from the image and
saved it under a different name |no telling
when I might need the original again). This
was then placed on the covet between the
text about Dan and Mayumi [his blushing
bride), and the location and time of the
wedding, I checked the coordinates for the
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The T96mm was because of the fact that
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I 'favoured' ways at wortang Some
*** tfimgs may 5e forced upon then by
the sequencer they us*, oiher ideas are just
picked up from experience and personal likes
and drsfikes
For example, metronome ticks dnve me nuts,
so the first thing I tend to do when composing Ij
create a couple of bars of a suitable drum
pattern and then paste [duplicate] it throughout
the section I'm working on, This provides a
working rhythm framewojk Forgetting started IT
is also useful to lay down a simple chord track to
provide some melody footholds for creating bass
lines and so on. The idea with all these types of
guide tracfcs ij to keep them simple Use them
just to hang your real ideas on and then, as your
wort evolves you simply delete the guide tracks
as and when they become redundant.
I also tend to work on individual sections -
verses, choruses, beginnings, ends and so on in
relative isolation, and only having created
separate sequences for the various components
of the song do I then Irnfc them together. Trie
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reason here is flexibility - rt is much easier to
modify an arrangement, add, duplicate, or
remove verses and so on if each iong section is
available as a separate sequence.
wlth most sequencers, songs created in this
way also tend to end up being physically smarier
because only one copy of each section will be
stored, no matter how many times it gets played
in the final arrangement. Dr Ts KCS, Bars &
Pipes, and many other sequencers provide
approaches to song construction that allow thrs
section-oriented approacn to be used, and
meaningful names, verse, chorus, bridge etc. can
always be assigned to the various sequences,
Another thing I ve found to be generally useful
is to collect any preliminary setting up events into
a separate, control sequence: You might, tor
example, create a count-in sequence that plays
straight fours on the high-hat and include
within that sequence all the program change
events that select the voices for the various
Midi channels that are in use. That way, all
initial Midi equipment setting up commands
are easily found and easily changed.
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There's a growing trend to save
compositions ai type or type 1 Midi
files since these an more convenient for
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and notation packages like Neiaior-X
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sequencers other than Music Xj, and for
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In theory type 2 Midi fifes would be
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of an arrangement (this in fact is what
type 2 Midi files were actually designed
for), but of course nobody ever uses
them because most sequencer packages
do not support their use. It is, therefore,
stilJ worth saving additional copies of
your songs as ordinary sequencer fifes
because It is then generally easier to
make arrangement changes as the
various song sections remain available
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No matter what sequencer you use, the chances are you li end up using far tsore tracks than you
really need while you sre actually creating a song You might, for example, experiment with half a
dozen ideas for a drum break at the end of a particular section of a song before deciding on the
version you like, ir you've used any auto-loopmg facilities provided by the sequencer, you might well
find that each loop repeat creates a new crack [as it does with Dr Ts KCS.I .
Sure, you can mute the unwanted ones as a temporary measure, but by the time you've got a
couple of dozen unwanted cracks like this floating around, things will oe getting a bit messy and
this can lead to siHy mistakes being made- I find it best to mix down the tracfcl associated with
various Midi charmers fairly frequently in order to keep the number of tracks in use to a reasonable
level.
With some sequencers you just have to delete unwanted tracks, with others like Dr Ts KCS.
however, you can write all traces to a single sequence, switch to Song mode and place that
sequence into a song, and then ask. KCS to write the sequence back to tine tape deck fusing the
Song To Tracks ophon|. As it does this. KCS splits the sequence so that all events from each Midi
channel go onto a different trade and this, of course, effectively combines, and so instantly tidies up.
all your previous track layouts.
Vou can do a similar thing with Sequencer One Plus by swing the composition as a Midi fife and
then importing it back into the sequencer again, Bars & Pipes, of course, provides auto looping
facilities which ret you record up to eight loop sections that get placed in temporary store. At the
end of the loop recording you're able to listen to all the various versions and then select the one
ynij wfsh to keep - Bars £■ Pipes then discards all the other versions.
Amiga Computing
DECEMBER 1995
1
Paul flueraa
outlines a
few tips and
tricks to
simplify qour
Midi
sequencing
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f you use your Amiga for video
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Firstly. Jet me tell you a little tut about fonts
and Che Amiga. In the early days, just about
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single colour bitmapped |i.e. where each letter
Is composed of fixed patterns of pixels, just
like images or brushes | or in formats specific
only to particular programs. Time passed, and
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(which could contain anything up to 16
colours], .began to appear.
The best known of these are KaraFonts."
several of which have been bundled with
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sizes, and trying to resize them usually results
in 'thejaggies,' either by making the pixels
more evident or by removing pixels which
helped smooth the shape of a letter. On the
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designed in all kinds of styles - granite,
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extending the creative scope for both
producers and users, though not all programs
can take advantage of them
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The introduction of AmigaDQS 2.1 brought
big changes because it made CGFonts (aka
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first time. Unlike bitmap fonts, which have
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times ana that virtually any sired lettering can
be produced from a single data fife, unlike
bitmaps, which require separate files for each
text size.
Once CGFonts had been introduced,
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into software so that programs like DPamt and
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display them directly, scaling them on the fly
as necessary. Of course, the screen text rs still
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monitors work, but the font's fidelity was
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bucket.
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and saving them at the sizes you require. Of
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space, so users without hard drives need to
carefully consider their font needs before they
Fonts parti
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conversion bmfot* thay can Iw u**tt tor vidmo *nd graphics
start converting large amounts of CGFonts
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PSFonts). These are based on a format
popularised by Adobe Systems and hundreds,
perhaps thousands, of these fonts are
available - many of them as shareware. We
CGFonts. PSFonts are scaleable. though There
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the original PSFont,
So you can see that a very wide range of
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Amiga use, but you should realrse that if you
arc doing video work with your Amiga they
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(and transferred as such to wdeo|. and will
still tend towards jaggedness if the screen
resolution is too low. The best resolution to
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res interlace at 640 x 5 1 2 pixels, or ?68 x 580
if yog need overran, because the pixel size is
smaller and hence the rough edges, are Jess
evident
Jaggies can be further reduced by either
using a program's ann-aliasing functions jif
available], a font antialiasing utility such as
Zen's AnaA. or by judiciously adding
intermedtate pixels at critical points to smooth
the edges into the background. Be aware that
if you're using a genlock to key graphics over
video, the effect of antialiasing Is unlikely to
improve the result because it's very difficult to
produce anti-aliasing against a constantly
changing background like video, and you'd
be better advised to employ distinctive
coloured borders for your text to highlight the
edges against the video background.
Next month
More on fonts and their use in video
You can e-mail Gary Whiteley as
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